Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves.

Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning and end. What if I searched for that which underlies all creation, that which is nirvana, the perfect freedom from unconditioned existence?

Why cling to the pain and the wrongs of yesterday? Why hold on to the very things that keep you from hope and love.

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.

Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned.

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.