MEDITATIONS: DOKKODO; THE WAY OF ALONENESS XVI.
Do not collect weapons or practice with weapons beyond what is useful.
— Miyamoto, Musashi
MEDITATIONS: DOKKODO; THE WAY OF ALONENESS XV.
Do not act following customary beliefs.
— Miyamoto, Musashi
MEDITATIONS: DOKKODO; THE WAY OF ALONENESS XIV.
Do not hold on to possessions you no longer need.
— Miyamoto, Musashi
MEDITATIONS: DOKKODO; THE WAY OF ALONENESS XIII.
Do not pursue the taste of good food.
— Miyamoto, Musashi
MEDITATIONS: DOKKODO; THE WAY OF ALONENESS XII.
Be indifferent to where you live.
— Miyamoto, Musashi
MEDITATIONS: DOKKODO; THE WAY OF ALONENESS XI.
In all things have no preferences.
— Miyamoto, Musashi
MEDITATIONS: DOKKODO; THE WAY OF ALONENESS X.
Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love.
— Miyamoto, Musashi
MEDITATIONS: DOKKODO; THE WAY OF ALONENESS IX.
Resentment and complaint are appropriate neither for oneself nor others.
— Miyamoto, Musashi
MEDITATIONS: DOKKODO; THE WAY OF ALONENESS VIII.
Never let yourself be saddened by a separation.
— Miyamoto, Musashi
MEDITATIONS: DOKKODO; THE WAY OF ALONENESS VI.
Do not regret what you have done.
— Miyamoto, Musashi
MEDITATIONS: DOKKODO; THE WAY OF ALONENESS V.
Be detached from desire your whole lifelong.
— Miyamoto, Musashi
MEDITATIONS: DOKKODO; THE WAY OF ALONENESS IV.
Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.
— Miyamoto, Musashi
MEDITATIONS: DOKKODO; THE WAY OF ALONENESS III.
Do not, under any circumstances, depend on a partial feeling.
— Miyamoto, Musashi
MEDITATIONS: DOKKODO; THE WAY OF ALONENESS II.
Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.
— Miyamoto, Musashi
MEDITATIONS: DOKKODO; THE WAY OF ALONENESS I.
Accept everything just the way it is.
— Miyamoto, Musashi
MEDITATIONS: THE DHAMMAPADA, CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
As a brahmin worships a ritual fire,
One should respectfully worship
Anyone from whom one might learn
The Dharma of the Fully Self-Awakened One.
— Buddha
MEDITATIONS: THE DHAMMAPADA, CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
Anyone who doesn’t cherish as “mine”
Anything of body-and-mind
And who doesn’t grieve for that which doesn’t exist,
Is indeed called a bhikkhu.
— Buddha
MEDITATIONS: THE DHAMMAPADA, CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
The craving of a person who lives negligently
Spreads like a creeping vine.
Such a person leaps ever onward,
Like a monkey seeking fruit in the forest
— Buddha