David Herron, Energy Healer

Strive and cut off the stream (of craving). Discard, O Brahmana, sense-desires. Knowing the destruction of conditioned things, be, O Brahmana, a knower of the Unmade (Nibbana).

When in two states (insight and concentration) a Brahmana goes to the Farther Shore, then all the fetters of that ``one who knows'' pass away.

For whom there exists neither the hither nor the farther shore, nor both the hither and the farther shore, he who is undistressed and unbound, - him I call a Brahmana.

Good is restraint of the eye; good is restraint of the ear; good is restraint of the nose; good is the restraint of the tongue.

Good is restraint in deed; good is restraint in speech; good is restraint in mind; good is restraint in everything. The Bhikkhu, restrained at all points, is freed from sorrow.

He who is controlled in hand, in foot, in speech, and in the highest (i.e. the head); he who delights in meditation, and is composed; he who is alone, and is contented, - him they call a Bhikkhu.

The craving of the heedless man grows like a Maluva (all entangling) creeper. He runs hither and thither (from one life to another) like a monkey in the forest looking for fruit.

Whosoever in this world is overcome by this base craving, this clinging (to sense objects), his sorrows grow like Birana grass after rain.

Whosoever in this world overcomes this base craving so hard to subdue, his sorrows fall away from him like water drops from a lotus leaf.

As an elephant in the battlefield withstands the arrows shot from a bow, even so will I endure abuse; verily most people are undisciplined.

They lead the trained (horses or elephants) to an assembly. The king mounts the trained animal. Best among men are the trained who endure abuse.

Excellent are trained mules, so are thorough-bred horses of Sindh and noble tusked elephants; but far better is he who has trained himself.

The liar goes to a woeful state, and also he who, having done (wrong), says, ``I did not.'' Both after death become equal, men of base actions in the other world.

Those who put on the yellow robes, who do evil and who are uncontrolled in their passions, they will go to hell because of their evil.

Better to swallow a red-hot iron ball, (which would consume one) like a flame of fire, than to be an immoral and uncontrolled person feeding on the alms offered by people.

If by giving up a lesser happiness, one may behold a greater one, let the wise man give up the lesser happiness in consideration of the greater happiness.

He who wishes his own happiness by causing pain to others is not released from hatred, being himself entangled in the tangles of hatred.

What should have been done is left undone, what should not have been done is done. Of those who are puffed up and heedless the corruptions increase.

The best of all paths is the Eightfold Path. The best of all truths are the Four Noble Truths. Non-attachment is the best of all states. The best of all men is the Seeing One (the Buddha).

This is the only Way. There is none other for the purity of vision. Do you follow this path. This is the bewilderment of Mara.

Entering upon that path you will make an end of pain. Having learnt the removal of thorns, have I taught you the path.

He is not just, who arbitrates hastily. He, who inquires into what is right and wrong is indeed just and wise.

The intelligent person who leads other not falsely but lawfully and impartially, who is a guardian of the law, is called ``one who abides by the law'' (dhammamattha).

He is not called wise who speaks much. He, who is patient, thoughtful, free from hatred and fear, he is indeed called a wise man.

He, who speaks much is not the one well versed in the Law. He, who hears the Law and practices what he has learnt is the one who knows the Law.

Like a withered leaf are you now. The messangers of death wait on you. On the threshold of decay you stand. Yet, you have no provision for your journey.

Make an island unto yourself. Strive quickly; become wise. Purged of strain and passionless, you shall enter the heavenly stage of the Ariyas.

Your life has come to end now. To the presence of death you are setting out. No halting place is there for you by the way. Provision too there is none for you.

Put anger away, abandon pride, overcome every attachment, cling not to Mind and Body and thus be free from sorrow.

One, who controls his anger when aroused, is like a clever driver who controls a fast going carriage; the others are like those who merely hold the reins.

Conquer the angre man by love; conquer the ill-natured man by goodness; conquer the miser with generosity; conquer the liar with truth.