Friends:
Any Advantageous Mental State Improves the Future!
Train yourself in doing good
that lasts and brings happiness.
Cultivate generosity, the life of peace,
and a mind of boundless love.
Itivuttuka 16
Generosity, kind words,
doing a good turn for others,
and treating all people alike:
these bonds of sympathy are to the world
what the lynch-pin is to the wagon wheel.
Anguttara Nikaya
II, 32
Good are friends when need arises;
good is contentment with just what one has;
good is merit when life is at an end,
and good is the Leaving of all suffering.
Dhammapada 331
In this world, good it is to serve one's mother,
good it is to serve one's father,
good it is to serve the monks,
and good it is to serve the holy ones.
Dhammapada 332
Good is moral virtue until life's end,
good is faith that is steadfast,
good is the acquisition of understanding,
and good is the avoidance of evil.
Dhammapada 333
To avoid all evil,
to cultivate only good,
and to purify one's mind-
this is the teaching of all Buddhas.
Dhammapada 183
The good renounce attachment for everything.
The wise do not prattle with a yearning for pleasures.
The clever show no elation nor depression
when touched by happiness nor sorrow.
Dhammapada 83
With good will for the entire universe,
cultivate a limitless heart:
Above, below, & all around,
unobstructed, without hostility or hate.
Sutta Nipata I, 8
Let any being guard self against irritability in thought;
let one be controlled in mind.
Leaving mental misconduct,
let one practice good conduct in thought.
Dhammapada 233
Let any being guard self against irritability in speech;
let one be controlled in speech.
Leaving verbal misconduct,
let one practice good conduct in speech.
Dhammapada 232
Overcome the angry by non-anger;
overcome the wicked by goodness;
overcome the miser by generosity;
overcome the liar by truth.
Dhammapada 223
Consort only with the good,
come together with the good.
To learn the teaching of the good
gives understanding like nothing else can.
Samyutta Nikaya I,
17
No mother nor father nor
any other kin can do
greater good for oneself
than a mind directed well.
Dhammapada 43
Think not lightly of good, saying, "It will not come to me."
Drop by drop is the water pot filled.
Likewise, the wise one, gathering it little by little,
fills oneself with advantageous good.
Dhammapada 122
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