Don’t give way to heedlessness
or to intimacy
with sensual delight–
for a heedful person,
absorbed in jhana,
attains an abundance of ease.
- Dhammapada [2]

Gains:
don’t treat your own with scorn,
don’t go coveting those of others.
A monk who covets those of others
attains no concentration.

Even if he gets next to nothing,
he doesn’t treat his gains with scorn.
Living purely, untiring:
he’s the one
that the devas praise.
- Dhammapada [15]

Focus not on the rudeness of others,
not on what they’ve done
or left undone,
but on what you
have & haven’t done yourself.
- Dhammapada [4]

If somebody meditates with a wholesome attitude, with right attention and mindfulness, then whether he has expectations or not he will gain insight. It’s like filling a bowl with oil seeds and pressing them or milking a cow by pulling the udder or filling a jar with cream and churning it. It’s the right method.
- Majjhima Nikaya

Guard against anger
erupting in mind;
in mind, be restrained.
Having abandoned mental misconduct,
live conducting yourself well
in mind.

Those restrained in body
–the enlightened–
restrained in speech & in mind
–enlightened–
are the ones whose restraint is secure.
- Dhammpada [17]

It is good to control your words and thoughts. The seeker who is in control feels free and joyful. Listen to that seeker who guards his tongue and speaks wisely. Such a one is humble and does not exalt himself.
- Dhammapada

I have taught the way without making any distinction between inner and outer teaching. For in respect of the truth there must be no such thing as the “closed fist” of the teacher, who hides some essential knowledge from the pupil. Secrecy is the mark of false doctrine.
- Digha Nikaya

Abandoning gossip, he abstains from gossip; he speaks at the right time, speaks what is fact, speaks on what is good, speaks on the Dhamma and the Discipline; at the right time he speaks such words as are worth recording, reasonable, moderate, and beneficial.
-Majjhima-Nikaya

Accept my words only when you have examined them for yourselves; do not accept them simply because of the reverence you have for me. Those who only have faith in me and affection for me will not find the final freedom. But those who have faith in the truth and are determined on the path, they will find awakening.
- Majjhima Nikaya

He whose senses are steadied
like stallions
well-trained by the charioteer,
his conceit abandoned,
free of effluent,
Such:
even gods adore him.
Like the earth, he doesn’t react–
cultured,
Such,
like Indra’s pillar,
like a lake free of mud.
For him
–Such–
there’s no travelling on.
- Dhammapada [7]