A Collection of Insights…for Inspirations

‘He     insulted me,

hit me,

beat me,

robbed me’

— for those who brood on this,

hostility isn’t stilled.

‘He insulted me,

hit me,

beat me,

robbed me’ —

for those who don’t brood on this,

hostility is stilled.

Hostilities aren’t stilled

through hostility,

regardless.

Hostilities are stilled

through non-hostility:

this, an unending truth.

Unlike those who don’t realize

that we’re here on the verge

of perishing,

those who do:

their quarrels are stilled.

–http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.01.than.html

“If beings knew, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they would not eat without having given, nor would the stain of miserliness overcome their minds. Even if it were their last bite, their last mouthful, they would not eat without having shared, if there were someone to receive their gift. But because beings do not know, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they eat without having given. The stain of miserliness overcomes their minds.”

So when the world is on fire with aging and death,

one should salvage [one's wealth] by giving:
	what's given is well salvaged.

What's given bears fruit as pleasure.
What isn't given does not:
	thieves take it away, or kings;
	it gets burnt by fire or lost.

The non-doing   of any evil,
the performance     of what's skillful,
the cleansing   of one's own mind:
	this is the teaching
	of the Awakened.
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.14.than.html#dhp-183