- It’s okay, be ordinary
- Understand your happiness.. understand others happiness
- Understand your sadness.. understand others sadness
- Don’t be special, sober up
- Lose speciality, agenda, project to be in sangha. That’s when you actually are in a community.
- See your thought before an assumption pops up. Forgo assumptions of happiness, sadness and see the feeling before you assume what it is
- The garbage collector child who became a monk and said.. I advise not to return to your native place as no one can be a sage in his own home. When a grandma who knew him as a child didn’t acknowledge him a monk. This is an example of ordinariness. The monk is not encumbered by arrogance.