When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is

In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the difference. Her concern concentrates on one thing just like the Buddhist practice of concentration. She thinks of nothing but her child, which is similar to Buddhist compassion. That must be why, although she created no other causes to bring about it, she was reborn in the Brahma heaven.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. This is a helpful pointer for our everyday presence-practice. Can you catch yourself angrily defending your point of view or attacking the other person's? There's the ego.

It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is possible.

With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.

Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable.