One should give up anger. One should abandon conceit. One should transcend all ties to individual existence. Miseries do not afflict one who is liberated from the perception of existence, who does not adhere to immaterial-factors-and-bodily-form.

One who can control his anger that has arisen, like [controlling] a chariot that has gone astray, I call him a charioteer. Other folk are [merely] rein holders.

One should conquer one’s anger with non-anger. One should conquer one’s unvirtuousness with virtuousness. One should conquer one’s stinginess through generosity. One should conquer a liar by [speaking] truthfully.

One should speak truthfully. One should not get angry. One should give if asked, even if there is only a little. On account of these three practices one would go into the presence of the devas.

Sages who do not harm, who are constantly restrained in conduct of body, [speech, and mind], go to the Unshakeable State where, having gone, they do not grieve.

Of those who are always [devoted to] wakefulness, practising [the three trainings] day and night, intent on the Untroubled, their perceptually obscuring states vanish.

This is an ancient [truth], Atula, not just of today: [People] criticise one who sits silently; they criticise one who speaks a lot; they even criticise one who speaks moderately. There is no one beyond criticism in the world.

There never has been, there never will be, and there does not exist in the present either a man who is never praised, or a man who is never criticised.

He whom the wise praise having examined him day after day, as being faultless in conduct, wise, and well-established in penetrative discernment and virtue; as being like a golden ornament; who would dare to criticise him? Even the devas praise him. He is praised even by Brahmā.

One should protect oneself against bodily misconduct. One should be restrained in conduct of body. Having abandoned bad conduct by way of the body, one should practise good conduct by way of the body.

One should protect oneself against verbal misconduct. One should be restrained in conduct of speech. Having abandoned bad conduct by way of speech, one should practise good conduct by way of speech.

One should protect oneself against mental misconduct. One should be restrained in conduct of mind. Having abandoned bad conduct by way of the mind, one should practise good conduct by way of the mind.

The wise are restrained in conduct of body and speech. The wise are restrained in mental conduct. They are well retrained, indeed.