It’s better to live alone; there’s no friendship with a fool. Live alone and skilfully, carefree like an elephant in the forest.
The Dhammapada
Texts
Buddhist Texts.
Morning meditation — Only those who think.
Only those who think that they will live forever don’t settle their quarrels.
The Dhammapada
Morning meditation — Only those who think that.
Only those who think that they will live forever don’t settle their quarrels.
The Dhammapada
Morning meditation — The Foolish and Ignorant Indulge.
The foolish and ignorant indulge in heedlessness, unlike the wise who protect their awareness like a treasure.
The Dhammapada
Morning meditation — Reciting the Sacred Texts.
Often reciting the sacred texts without putting them into practice is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others.
The Dhammapada
Morning meditation — Only the Heedful and Aware.
Don’t give way to heedlessness.
Don’t indulge in sense pleasure.
Only the heedful and aware attain great happiness.
The Dhammapada
Morning meditation — Delight in Heedfulness.
Those who delight in heedfulness and look with fear on heedlessness will not slip. They are close to Nibbana.
The Dhammapada
Morning meditation — There are Three Kinds of Suffering.
‘Monks, there are three kinds of suffering.
Suffering caused by pain,
suffering caused by conditioned existence,
and suffering due to change.’
The Buddha
Dukkhatāsutta
Buddhism now 