By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes.

By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we acquire great treasures.

There are those who discover they can leave behind destructive reactions and become patient as the earth, unmoved by fires of anger or fear, unshaken as a pillar, unperturbed as a clear and quiet pool.

What you have become is the result of what you have thought

Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path.

Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.