The Art of Giving and Receiving

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• After an extravagant life, you feel desolate and cheerless.
  After consorting with a tranquil person, you have long sweet memories.
• Everyone owns a broom to enlightenment. As long as you always brush away your dust and defilement, the temple inside your mind will be clean and fragrant.
• True cultivation means to embrace sentient beings in your mind and then provide them with services above and beyond the call of duty.
• Compassion means more than giving praise and encouragement amiably. Sometimes, it means exercising the great strength of a heavenly guardian to subdue a defiled person.
  This style of great compassion is hard to achieve.
• Life involves causes and conditions. Because of causes and conditions, we make friends, create family, and succeed in business.
• Take responsibility for your decisions.
  If you can keep your word for life, you can succeed in any field.
• An enthusiastic person can create a happy, carefree, and all-embracing life.
  He knows how to cultivate his good nature, enhance himself, and be compassionate to others. He is considered a highly spiritual person.
• To seek from without is to gain knowledge, to seek from within is to gain prajna wisdom.
  Prajna wisdom enables you to tell right from wrong, turn defilement into purity, and turn ignorance into enlightenment.
• A willing mind lightens a heavy workload.
  A good companion reduces the fatigue of a long journey.
• Every achievement demands causes and conditions.
  Everyone needs a long life to grow up.
• Life's dignity lies in creating an everlasting memory, not in a brief moment of glory.
  Life's meaning lies in one's service as a model for the generations, not in the number of one's years.
• The water of wisdom cleanses us of delusion and discrimination.
  The lamp of prajna lights up our inner world.
• Ordinary people adorn themselves with beautiful dress and makeup.
  Practitioners dignify themselves with morality and compassion.
• Sounds of firecrackers, applause, and drums are music that accompanies an actor's entrance to and exit from the stage. These sounds which last for only these instances convey the message of impermanence.
  Life is like a stage. A person enters the stage at birth and exits at death.
• The world does not belong to a single person. Let go of your biased thinking and attachments and think of other people's needs.
  Then you can own the world.
• In tranquility seek your true nature.
  In selflessness find nobility and advancement.