What causes suffering is trying to avoid the facts of life, trying to avoid pain and trying to seek happiness. When things are not going well and we feel depressed, lonely or inadequate, take notice of this important moment in your life because, at this moment, real transformation can take place.
Concentrate on the resources you have, embrace your fate, work with it and take advantage of it. When you get tired of holding on to things, you will then be able to live fully. Simply realize the wealth you already have.
Being natural is desiring without craving and acting without excess. Not defending or nourishing your false self you will find that greed, hatred and arrogance vanish by themselves. Toughening your resolve will create self-reliance and you will lose the sense of self and other.
All things change, prosperity is followed by decline; this is an eternal natural law. Evil can be checked but not permanently abolished, it always returns. This idea might produce melancholy, but should not, it ought only to keep us from falling into illusion when good fortune comes to us.
Quote: We meet no ordinary people in our lives.