When others do not understand, let us, who do understand this, restrain ourselves in this regard; for that is how conflicts are laid to rest.
A wise person lives on even after loss of wealth; but without gaining wisdom, even a rich person doesn’t really live.
All is heard with the ear, all is seen with the eye; the attentive ought not discard all that is seen and heard.
Though you have eyes, be as if blind; though you have ears, be as if deaf; though you have wisdom, be as if dumb; though you have strength, be as if feeble. And when issues come up lie as still as a corpse.
Verses of the Senior Monks 8.2 The Book of the Eights Chapter One Sirimitta
Free of anger and acrimony, free of deceit, and rid of slander; that’s how such a mendicant doesn’t grieve after passing away.
Free of anger and acrimony, free of deceit, and rid of slander; that’s how a mendicant <j>with sense doors always guarded doesn’t grieve after passing away.
Free of anger and acrimony, free of deceit, and rid of slander; that’s how a mendicant of good morals doesn’t grieve after passing away.
Free of anger and acrimony, free of deceit, and rid of slander; that’s how a mendicant with good friends doesn’t grieve after passing away.
Free of anger and acrimony, free of deceit, and rid of slander; that’s how a mendicant of good wisdom, doesn’t grieve after passing away.