Buddhist Cool

Look at the sequence of configurations of language, experience, and desire that make up your life. They are transient. You can see no permanent self behind them. Many lead to suffering.

Suffering configurations lack a harmony of language, experience, and desire. So train yourself to let go of such configurations and to turn to those that reconcile language, experience, and desire. Learn to suspend language and desire at times and to rest in the simple flow of experience.

Be mindful. Examine your views. Cultivate positive configurations. Let go of negative configurations. Cultivate compassion, serenity, joy. Refrain from taking life. Refrain from taking what is not given. Refrain from sexual misconduct. Refrain from false speech. Refrain from intoxicants.

Walk your path calmly. Be relaxed and natural. Be practical. Do not worry about what other people think of you. Do your work without attachment. Be free from possessions and status, fortune and loss, success and failure. Do what you really want to do ethically and well. Face death without regret.