Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.

Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to the winning of knowledge and insight, to pleasant living in this very life, to the realization of the fruit of release by knowledge. What is that one thing: It is mindfulness centered on the body.

It is our minds that create this world.

By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.

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

In Aryans' Discipline, to build a friendship is to build wealth, To maintain a friendship is to maintain wealth and To end a friendship is to end wealth.

Yet the Teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be pure. At the end of the way is freedom.