How deeply did you learn to let go?

If you determine your course With force or speed, You miss the way of the dharma. Quietly consider What is right and what is wrong. Receiving all opinions equally, Without haste, wisely, Observe the dharma.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?

Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.

Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you to Nirvana.