Words Do Not Express Thoughts Very Well;

Do Not Believe In Anything Simply Because You Have Heard It. Do Not Believe In Anything Simply Because It Is Spoken And Rumored By Many. Do Not Believe In Anything Simply Because It Is Found Written In Your Religious Books. Do Not Believe In Anything Merely On The Authority Of Your Teachers And Elders. Do Not Believe In Traditions Because They Have Been Handed Down For Many Generations. But After Observation And Analysis, When You Find That Anything Agrees With Reason And Is Conducive To The Good And Benefit Of One And All, Then Accept It And Live Up To It.

Holding On To Anger Is Like Grasping A Hot Coal With The Intent Of Throwing It At Someone Else; You Are The One Who Gets Burned.

Now, Kalamas, Don’t Go By Reports, By Legends, By Traditions, By Scripture, By Logical Conjecture, By Inference, By Analogies, By Agreement Through Pondering Views, By Probability, Or By The Thought, ‘This Contemplative Is Our Teacher.’ When You Know For Yourselves That, ‘These Qualities Are Skillful; These Qualities Are Blameless; These Qualities Are Praised By The Wise; These Qualities, When Adopted & Carried Out, Lead To Welfare & To Happiness’ — Then You Should Enter & Remain In Them

No One Saves Us But Ourselves. No One Can And No One May. We Ourselves Must Walk The Path.

Nothing Can Harm You As Much As Your Own Thoughts Unguarded.