We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

Do not look at the faults of what others have done or not done; observe what you yourself have done or not done.

Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.

Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.

Focusnot on the rudeness of others,not on what they've done or left undone,but on what you have done and have not doneyourself.

Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non-virtuous things. Once you have discovered for yourself give up the bad and embrace the good.

If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.