Let your mind become clear like a still forest pool.

As soon as we think we are safe, something unexpected happens.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content.

Look upon him who shows you your faults as a revealer of treasure: seek his company who checks and chides you, the sage who is wise in reproof: it fares well and not ill with him who seeks such company.

If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out.

You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death