[736]
The only way to change the past is in the present.
The only way to shape the future is in the present.
[737]
If there are no inner gurus,
outer gurus would not be needed
to awaken them.
[738]
Why be grouchy when you can be neutral?
Why be neutral when you can be friendly?
[739]
If you are not even mindful of your suffering
(by realising the First Noble Truth),
how can you be mindful of the need to end it
(by realising the Third Noble Truth)?
[740]
Whether a myth is true or not
differs from
whether it has truth or not.
[741]
To be fully enlightened is to
have the broadest heart and mind possible,
without losing sensitivity to the narrowest hearts and minds.
[742]
Since every thing is interdependent upon one another,
there is no one independent creator of everything.
[743]
Anger is not only seldom productive;
it is often thoroughly destructive.
[744]
Easy or difficult depends on
whether one’s method is right or not,
whether one’s effort is enough or not.
[745]
If we are truly mindful,
we will realise that mindfulness of Buddha
is the most skilful of means that the Buddha ever taught.