From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there’s no grief – so how fear?
The Eightfold Path: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me - deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realised only by the wise.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
