MEDITATIONS: DOKKODO; THE WAY OF ALONENESS X.
Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love.
— Miyamoto, Musashi
MEDITATIONS: DOKKODO; THE WAY OF ALONENESS IX.
Resentment and complaint are appropriate neither for oneself nor others.
— Miyamoto, Musashi
MEDITATIONS: DOKKODO; THE WAY OF ALONENESS VIII.
Never let yourself be saddened by a separation.
— Miyamoto, Musashi
MEDITATIONS: DOKKODO; THE WAY OF ALONENESS VI.
Do not regret what you have done.
— Miyamoto, Musashi
MEDITATIONS: DOKKODO; THE WAY OF ALONENESS V.
Be detached from desire your whole lifelong.
— Miyamoto, Musashi
MEDITATIONS: DOKKODO; THE WAY OF ALONENESS IV.
Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.
— Miyamoto, Musashi
MEDITATIONS: DOKKODO; THE WAY OF ALONENESS III.
Do not, under any circumstances, depend on a partial feeling.
— Miyamoto, Musashi
MEDITATIONS: DOKKODO; THE WAY OF ALONENESS II.
Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.
— Miyamoto, Musashi
MEDITATIONS: DOKKODO; THE WAY OF ALONENESS I.
Accept everything just the way it is.
— Miyamoto, Musashi
MEDITATIONS: THE DHAMMAPADA, CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
As a brahmin worships a ritual fire,
One should respectfully worship
Anyone from whom one might learn
The Dharma of the Fully Self-Awakened One.
— Buddha
MEDITATIONS: THE DHAMMAPADA, CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
Anyone who doesn’t cherish as “mine”
Anything of body-and-mind
And who doesn’t grieve for that which doesn’t exist,
Is indeed called a bhikkhu.
— Buddha
MEDITATIONS: THE DHAMMAPADA, CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
The craving of a person who lives negligently
Spreads like a creeping vine.
Such a person leaps ever onward,
Like a monkey seeking fruit in the forest
— Buddha
MEDITATIONS: THE DHAMMAPADA, CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
If you find an intelligent companion,
A fellow traveler
A sage of good conduct,
You should travel together,
Delighted and mindful,
Overcoming all dangers.
— Buddha
MEDITATIONS: THE DHAMMAPADA, CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
Those who assert what is not true go to hell,
As do those who deny what they’ve done.
Both these people of base deeds become equal
After death, in the world beyond.
— Buddha
MEDITATIONS: THE DHAMMAPADA, CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
Having killed
Mother, father,
Two learned kings
And a tiger
The brahmin, undisturbed, moves on.
— Buddha
MEDITATIONS: THE DHAMMAPADA, CHAPTER TWENTY
“All created things are suffering.”
Seeing this with insight,
One becomes disenchanted with suffering.
This is the path to purity.
— Buddha
MEDITATIONS: THE DHAMMAPADA, CHAPTER NINETEEN
One is not just
Who judges a case hastily.
A wise person considers
Both what is and isn’t right.
Guiding others without force,
Impartially and in accord with the Dharma,
One is called a guardian of the Dharma,
Intelligent and just.
— Buddha
MEDITATIONS: THE DHAMMAPADA, CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
As rust corrupts
The very iron that formed it,
So transgressions lead
Their doer to states of woe.
— Buddha
MEDITATIONS: THE DHAMMAPADA, CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Give up anger, give up conceit,
Pass beyond every fetter.
There is no suffering for one who possesses nothing,
Who doesn’t cling to body-and-mind.
— Buddha