Just as you have come to know, the false discrimination of yourself, apply this mentally to all phenomena
Gautama BuddhaAll tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.
Gautama BuddhaAs I am, so are others as others are, so am I. Having thus identified self and others, harm no one nor have them harmed.
Gautama BuddhaDo not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain.
Gautama BuddhaAs an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.
Gautama BuddhaPeople cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who tries to eat a little, honey smeared on the edge of a knife. The amount is by no means sufficient to appease his appetite, but he runs the risk of wounding his tongue.
Gautama Buddha