As a bee, without harming the blossom, its color, its fragrance takes its nectar & flies away so should the sage go through a village. – Dhammapada [4]

Whoever, with a rod, harasses an innocent man, unarmed, quickly falls into any of ten things: harsh pains, devastation, a broken body, grave illness, mental derangement, trouble with the government, violent slander, relatives lost, property dissolved, houses burned down. At the break-up of the body this one with no disconcernment, reappears in hell. – Dhammapada… Read More WEEKLY WISDOM 21/08/2017

Patient endurance: the foremost austerity. Unbinding: the foremost, so say the Awakened. He who injures another is no contemplative. He who mistreats another, no monk. – Dhammapada [14]

Evil is done by oneself by oneself is one defiled. Evil is left undone by oneself by oneself is one cleansed. Purity & impurity are one’s own doing. No one purifies another. No one purifies one. – Dhammapada [12]