All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others.

You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves.

In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite.

Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others

Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.

If one stays too long with friends They will soon tire of him; Living in such closeness leads to dislike and hate. It is but human to expect and demand too much When one dwells too long in companionship.