The document presents teachings from the Dhammapada, emphasizing that attachment and selfish desires lead to suffering and a restless mind. It advocates for training one's senses, living simply, and cultivating qualities like love and contentment to achieve peace and ultimately reach nirvana. The teachings illustrate the transient nature of life and the importance of letting go of negative emotions such as greed and hatred.

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2. 2The compulsive urges of the thoughtless grow like a creeper. They jump like a monkey from one life to another, looking for fruit in the forest.

3. 3When a person is driven by selfish desires, sorrow spreads in his life like wild grass.

4. 4All human beings are subject to attachment and thirst for pleasure. Driven by this thirst they run about frightened like a hunted hare, suffering more and more.

5. 5A person driven by fierce craving is like a spider caught in his own web.

6. 6He is supremely wise who is free from compulsive urges and attachment.

7. 7Greed, lust, hatred, and selfish desires ruin the mind, as weeds ruin the field.

8. 8Train your senses, they are good friends when trained and will take you beyond sorrow.

9. 9A true bhikshu trains his body, speech and mind and is at peace with him self.

10. 10A true bhikshu lives simply, is contented and never jealous of others. Those who are jealous cannot do well in meditation.

11. 11Bhikshu, empty your boat! It will go faster. Cast out greed and hatred and reach ‘Nirvana’.

12. Be a friend to all. Perform your duties well. Joy will grow sorrow will end.

13. Cross the river bravely, conquer all your passions. Go beyond the world of fragments, likes and dislikes and all fetters will fall away.13

14. The sun shines in the day, the moon shines at night, the warrior shine in battle; the Brahmin in meditation. But day and night the Buddha shines in radiance of love for all.14

15. Him I call a Brahmin who is never angry and never harms others even when he is harmed by them.15

16. How can a troubled mind Understand the way?If a man is disturbedHe will never be filled with knowledge. 16

17. Him I call a Brahmin who possessing nothing, desiring nothing and is free from past and future.17

18. Look about and contemplate life. Everything is transient and nothing endures. There is birth and death; growth and decay; there is combination and separation.18

19. The glory of the world is like a flower; it stands in full bloom in the morning and fades in the heat of the day.19

20. ‘Self’ if combined with selfishness is a source of evil. ‘Self combined with ego is a false self and ‘Self’ combined with truth is a self which will attain Nirvana.20