Dhammapada - The Essential Teaching of The Buddha

Chapter XXI

MISCELLANEOUS

290 If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise  man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.

292 What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.

299 The disciples of Gotama are always well awake, and their thoughts day and night are always set on their body.

300 The disciples of Gotama are always well awake, and their mind day and night always delights in compassion.

301 The disciples of Gotama are always well awake, and their mind day and night always delights in meditation.

303 A man full of faith, if endowed with virtue and glory, is respected, whatever place he may choose.

304 Good people shine from afar, like the snowy mountains; bad people are not seen, like shot by night.

305 Sitting alone, lying down alone, walking alone without ceasing, and alone subduing himself, let a man be happy near the edge of a forest.

Dhammapada - The Essential Teaching of The Buddha

Chapter XX

THE WAY

273 The best ways is the eightfold; the best of truths the four words; the best of virtues passionlessness; the best of man who has eyes to see.

276 You yourself must make an effort. The Tathagatas (Buddhas) are only preachers. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of Mara.

277 'All created things perish,' he who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain; this is the way of purity.

278 'All created things are grief and pain,' he who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain; this is the way that leads to purity.

279 'All forms are unreal,' he who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain; this is the way that leads to purity.

280 He who does not rouse himself when it is time to rise, who, though young and strong, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle man never finds the way to knowledge.

281 Watching his speech, well restrained in mind, let a man never commit any wrong with his body! Let a man but keep these three roads of action clear, and he will achieve the way which is thought by the wise.

289 A wise and well-behaved man who knows the meaning of this, should quickly clear the way that leads to  Nirvara.

Dhammapada - The Essential Teaching of The Buddha

Chapter XIX

THE JUST

258 A man is not learned because he talks much; he is who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.

259 A man is not supporter of the law because he talks much; even if a man has learnt little, but sees the law bodily, he is supporter of the law, a man never neglects the law.

260 A man is not an elder because his head is grey; his age may be ripe, but he is called 'Old-in-vain.'

265 He who always quiets the evil, whether small or large, he is called Samana (a quiet man), because he has quieted all evil.

270 A man is not an elect (Ariya) because he injuries living creatures; because he has pity on all living creatures, therefore is a man called Ariya.

Living from breath to breath.

Today during the meditation with my group it occurred to me that meditation is precisely - Living From Breath to Breath. There was no past nor there was a future but there was anything that happened in between my breaths.