| Renunciation "Get thee away from life-lust. from conceit, from ignorance and from distraction's craze.Sunder the bonds; so only shalt thou come to utter end of ill. Throw away the chain of birth and death- thou knowest what they mean. So free from craving, in this life on earth, thou shalt go on thy way, calm and serene. The Buddha Victory But anguish crept upon me, even me, whenas I pondered in my little cell: ah me! how have I come into this evil road? Into the power of craving have I strayed! Brief is the span of life yet left to me,old age, disease, hang iminent to crush now ere this body perish and desolve, swift let me be, no time have I for sloth. And contemplating, as they really are, the aggregates of life that come and go. I rose and stood with mind emancipate! For me the Buddha's words had come to pass. Psalms of the early buddha The Rune of Hospitality I saw a stranger yestereen; i put food in the eating place. Drink in the drinking place. And in the sacred names of the truine. He blessed me and my house. My cattle and my dear ones. And the lark said in her song. Often, often, often goes the christ in the stranger's guise. Often, often, often goes the christ in stranger's guise. Self Lift up the Self by the Self and don't let the Self droop down. For the Self is the Self's only friend and the Self is the Self's only foe. | 
