Let none deceive another, nor look down on anyone anywhere. Though provoked or aggrieved, let them not wish pain on each other. Even as a mother would protect with her life her child, her only child,

Respect and placidity, contentment and gratitude, and timely listening to the teaching: this is the highest blessing.

Sovereignty of a local kingdom, the happiness of a Wheel-Turning Monarch, even kingship in the heavens: through this they have it all. Human success, heavenly delight,

blameless deeds: this is the highest blessing. Desisting and abstaining from evil, avoiding drinking liquor, diligence in good qualities: this is the highest blessing.

Even if they do a bad deed by body, speech, or mind, they are unable to conceal it; they say this inability applies to one who has seen the truth. This sublime gem is in the Saṅgha: by this truth, may you be well!

give offerings to departed kin, remembering past deeds. For neither tears nor grief or other lamentations are of any use to the departed, so long as their relatives stay like this.

how the mendicants can be kept strong, and how no little merit is produced by you. But when lavish food and drink of many kinds is set out, no-one remembers them at all, because of those beings’s deeds.

with desire for sensual pleasures dispelled, they never return to a womb again. content and unburdensome, unbusied, living lightly, alert, with senses calmed, courteous, not fawning on families.

When standing, walking, sitting, or lying down while yet unweary, keep this ever in mind; for this, they say, is a divine meditation in this life.

Homage to him, the blessed one, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha! I take refuge in the Buddha, I take refuge in the Teaching, I take refuge in the Sangha. For the second time I take refuge in the Buddha, for the second time I take refuge in the Teaching,

for the second time I take refuge in the Sangha. For the third time I take refuge in the Buddha, for the third time I take refuge in the Teaching, for the third time I take refuge in the Sangha.

Outside the walls they stand and wait, at the junctions and the crossroads. Returning to their former homes they wait beside the door posts. Thinking: “They gave to me, they did for me, they were my family, friend, comrade”,

I undertake the precept to refrain from food at the wrong time. I undertake the precept to refrain from seeing shows of dancing, singing, and music . I undertake the precept to refrain from attiring and adorning myself with garlands, fragrance, and makeup. I undertake the precept to refrain from high and luxurious beds.

being rightly resolved in oneself, this is the highest blessing. Education and a craft, discipline and training, and well-spoken speech: this is the highest blessing.

When their merit is used up, all of that will vanish. But by giving and morality, restraint and self-control, a woman or man keeps their savings safe.

What is the one? All sentient beings are sustained by food. What is the ten? One endowed with ten factors is called “perfected”. What is the two? Name and form.

What is the three? Three feelings. What is the four? Four noble truths. What is the five? Five grasping aggregates.

What is the nine? Nine abodes of sentient beings.

and timely discussion of the teaching: this is the highest blessing. Fervor and chastity seeing the noble truths, and realization of extinguishment: this is the highest blessing.

Though touched by worldly conditions, their mind does not tremble; sorrowless, stainless, secure: this is the highest blessing. Having completed these things, undefeated everywhere;