From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there’s no grief – so how fear?
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
The Eightfold Path: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If you speak or act with an evil thought, pain follows. If you speak or act with a pure thought, happiness follows, like a shadow that never leaves.
Be determined. The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food, like the wind overcomes a rotten tree.
There are ways from light into darkness and from darkness into light. There are ways, also, from the gloom into deeper darkness, and from the dawn into brighter light. The wise man will use the light he has to receive more light. He will constantly advance in the knowledge of truth.
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. That’s the mark of a true professional.
