We are what we think
All that we are arises with our thoughts
With our thoughts we make the world
Speak or act with an impure mind
And trouble will follow you
As the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart
We are what we think
All that we are arises with our thoughts
With our thoughts we make the world
Speak or act with a pure mind
And happiness will follow you
As your shadow, unshakable
"Look how he abused me and hurt me
How he threw me down and robbed me"
"Look how he abused me and hurt me
How he threw me down and robbed me"
Abandon such thoughts, and live in love
In this world
Hate never yet dispelled hate
Only love dispels hate
This is the law
Ancient and inexhaustible
You too shall pass away
Knowing this, how can you quarrel?
How easily the wind overturns a frail tree
Seek happiness in the senses
Indulge in food and sleep
Indulge in food and sleep
And you too will be uprooted
The wind cannot overturn a mountain
Temptation cannot touch the man
Who is awake, strong and humble
Who masters himself and minds the dharma
If a man's thoughts are muddy
If he is reckless and full of deceit
How can he wear the yellow robe?
Whoever is master of his own nature
Bright, clear and true
He may indeed wear the yellow robe
Mistaking the false for the true
And the true for the false
You overlook the heart
And fill yourself with desire
See the false as false
The true as true
Look into your heart
Follow your nature
An unreflecting mind is a poor roof
Passion, like the rain, floods the house
But if the roof is strong, there is shelter
Whoever follows impure thoughts
Suffers in this world and the next
In both worlds he suffers
And how greatly
When he sees the wrong he has done
But whoever follows the dharma
Is joyful here and joyful there
In both worlds he rejoices
And how greatly
When he sees the good he has done
For great is the harvest in this world
And greater still in the next
However many holy words you read
However many you speak
What good will they do you
If you do not act upon them?
Are you a shepherd
Who counts another man's sheep
Never sharing the way?
Read as few words as you like
And speak fewer
But act upon the dharma
Give up the old ways
Passion, enmity, folly
Know the truth and find peace
Share the way
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