If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from tree to tree, Never finding the fruit - From life to life, Never finding peace. If you are filled with desire Your sorrows swell Like the grass after the rain. But if you subdue desire Your sorrows shall fall from you Like drops of water from a lotus flower.

If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.

Through effort you will cross any raging flood, through energy you will pass any sorrow.

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

Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.

Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.