If with uncorrupted mind you feel good will for even one being, you become skilled from that. But a Noble One produces a mind of sympathy for all beings, an abundance of merit.
For one who has abandoned craving and is free from grasping, who knows languages and their interpretations, the combinations of the letters and their order before and after, this is the final birth. The one is called the Great Being, the Great Sage.
So long as the love, even the smallest, of man toward woman is not destroyed, so long is his mind in bondage as the calf that drinks milk is to its mother.
All individual things pass away, strive on untiringly.
By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure. The pure and the impure come from oneself: no man can purify another.
We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by loving kindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it.
There are four nutriments for the maintenance of beings who have come into being or for the support of those in search of a place to be born: Physical food, gross or refined; touch as the second; thinking the third; and consciousness the fourth.
He who injures living beings is not noble. He is called noble because he is gentle and kind towards all living beings.
Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.
Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure.
I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.
Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.
In whom there is no sympathy for living beings: know him as an outcast.
Live with no sense of 'mine,' not forming attachment to experiences.
Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.
If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current-how can he help others across?
All conditioned things are impermanent-when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.
The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.
To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children and to be engaged in peaceful occupation-this is the greatest blessing.
All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.
