Use material things to benefit yourself and humanity; and not vice versa.
Express and be in harmony with your own unique individuality.
Surround yourself with good examples—but go beyond them, emulate rather than imitate, and use them more to spur yourself on than to follow.
Properly combine your nature and training. The right parts of your nature lead to right raining, and right training leads to the right parts of your nature.
People differ greatly from one another. They decide and act based on their own particular motives and character. Do not assume or generalize anything about a person.
Choose the right environment, have an adequate variety of role models and companions, and aim for the kinds of interaction best for you with each particular person. Magnanimously regard, appreciate, respect, and delight in other people's goodness.
Consult and consider others’ frank, worthy assessments when it comes to their areas of expertise.
Make right alliances with and get good assistance from others. Do not misapply their help. Do not demand too much from one individual. Combine individual responsibility with teamwork.
Be rightly sociable, considerate, loyal, tolerant, and dutiful to others.
Many people lack character. Be cautious of being excessively lenient to, favoring of, familiar with, self-humbling towards, tolerant of, seemingly dependent on, or truthful and truth-seeking with them.
Set a good personal example—but in certain situations, be cautious of doing so in the presence of people who, out of pettiness or envy, will resent you for your worthiness and seek some sort of retaliation.
But confine your duty to them to its proper limits. Do not allow yourself to be harmed or led astray by others people'a non-rightness. Do not un-rightly harm yourself for others’ benefit.
Others will not necessarily be understanding, or be obliging towards you and your desires.
Remain composed when others do not know.
Let petty people know you mean business, and be tactful with them in order to avoid the problems that will inevitably ensue if you are too ___ .
Show a cautious reserve towards what you do not thoroughly know—especially when outwardly stating what goes against common opinion.
Be self-possessed and dignified.
Bondage and liberation are both within you. Fight the fight within. A true conqueror is one who conquers his Self through his Self. Self-rightness is the root of all rightness. The practice of rightness is from a person himself.
Individuals are free-willed and self-responsible.
Be concerned with what is in your power, and adapt to what is not.
Direct yourself to rightness rather than depending on externals to do so.
Utilize opportunities that come by themselves, create opportunities that do not. Be ready to rightly use opportunities and key moments when they arrive.
Needs differ from person to person, and within a person at different times.
No matter how short the way is, a person will never finish it if he does not travel it. No matter how small a matter is, a person will never accomplish it if he does not do it. Steps are needed to cover a long journey. Do not try to do too much at once, neglect the greater rightness just because you cannot maintain all of it, or have excess concern for far off plans or obstacles.
Do not assume something is completed. It's seldom enough to begin things, give them their direction, and put them into movement. Some do much in starting and progressing, but stop without pushing advantages to victory, and often choose to give up much accumulation in order to accept a trivial return.
Perseverance isn't everything. Useless activity can be done forever.
Be content with following the Way. Make decisions based on what is most integral and essential to it, what comes next, and so on. Avoid being led astray or worn out by sacrificing, impeding, or neglecting major, important, and central advantages, needs, and matters in order to overvalue and apply yourself excessively to the minor.
Some things are worth doing perfectly, others excellently, others OK, and some not so well.
Rightness should be reached in the right way, whether easy or difficult.
Do everything in the right order.
Be broad enough for the essentials and adequate variety, and narrow enough to stay with the essentials and stick to the same thing when right to do so.
Reach and do not surpass rightness.
Know and base your beliefs and actions on the real sphere of your activity and condition. Avoid vain imaginings and unbalanced expectations, hopes, and fears. Do not allow a high aim to cause you to miss the mark of solid expectations. Know how to soar high and press forward, but also know how to adapt and limit yourself.
Do not underestimate situations, and neglect consideration, preparation, and vigilance. Do not make things more difficult than they are, or let your view magnify actual difficulties.
Anticipate and properly deal with matters in their early states.
Combine spontaneity and adaptability with planning and goals.
Make calculations and plans based on all potential possibilities and variables--but do not live in "what if."
Be prepared for and prevent dangers and problems.
Be ready and vigilant in noticing what is really happening, and acting accordingly.
Aim to impartially and accurately weigh all pros and cons of all options. Ask yourself the right questions. Distinguish various drawbacks and choose what has the least, knowing that even the greatest actions ususally have some drawbacks, and that to do a great right, it is usually necessary to do a little non-right.
Rightness and avoidance of major ills often requires taking certain risks and exposing yourself to minor ills. By guarding against everything, we cannot accumulate the right that will help us guard against wrong. Better to risk some than lose more.
In order to have rightly directed efforts, avoid excess demands, self-doubt, concern about criticism, or sensitivity to minor matters.
Offense is often a part of an effective defense, and speed is sometimes safest.
Rightly combine go-at-it with finesse.
Sometimes it is best to give some ground, yield, let things alone and to their course, and/or not strive.
Sometimes you get a better hold on a problem by leaving it for a while and totally dismissing it from your mind.
Beings have innate and trained habits.
What is repeatedly done becomes easier to repeatedly do, especially in the absence of what conflicts it. With great repetition, an action or thought becomes so strong that it is almost automatically done, and requires effort to not do.
Stronger habits supercede weaker ones.
Properly feed your rightness with rightness in order for it to grow into right habits.
Guard against continuously doing non-right. Use resolute initiative and right reinforcement to eliminate non-right habits, and to develop right habits that replace them.
Advancement in learning skills and making progress often has periods of stagnation or loss, followed by sudden major elevation often made when the person is not noticing.
Internal experiences of great victory often precedes their occurrence in reality. Have strong, deep, intense, persistent, vigorous, diligent, auspicious desire, determination, conviction, resolution, faith, expectations, and effort. Constantly affirm your rightness power, cultivate a right attitude, internally live in the ideal, mentally live in the ideal, have right beliefs, thoughts, visualizations, autosuggestions, and affirmations, and instantly obliterate all inauspicious ones.
It is what it is. What it is is what it is.
Rather than being for or against something, just follow what's right, and prioritize it over everything, including teachings, teachers, understanding, the past, and conclusion making, and whether something is ordinary or not, old or new, copied or original, and/or from a source you revere or hate.
Attend to the root.
Know and deal with distinctions.
Perspectives, parts, and impressions contain only partial data. Comparisons, analogies, categories, names, and general precepts have their limits. Cycles and constants exist, but not absolutely in everything. An effect is caused by a combination of causes.
Time actions rightly.
Don't merely expect the present to be like the past, and the future to be like the present.
The past isn't what we think it was. The future will turn out differently than we expect.
Notice, honor, and appreciate the present. Moments that go by never return. Tread rightness now.
Confine foresight and review to their right times and limits.
Rightness is better done late than never at all.
Have mental, emotional, physical, and soul self-discipline, equanimity, toughness, and resoluteness. Be ever vigilant against present and future harms. Keep yourself free of delusion.
Be confident yet careful, and self-assured yet self-protective. Use intrepidity to preserve composure and liberty.
Deal with and be superior to the problems and difficulties life presents you. Think of making things right as best you can. Be iron. Avoid aimless fear or worry.
Rightness is and results in a pure self. Rightness is its own reward; non-rightness is its own punishment. Properly cultivate and use your power to do what's right. Follow what's known as right. Rectify non-rightness through rightness, and abandoning non-rightness. Know, prefer, will for, long for, approve of, revere, like, love, delight in, do, persist in, and develop yourself with rightness. Guard against, abandon, avoid, restrain yourself from, fear, hate, be ashamed of, and do not desire, like, pamper, be attached to, or do non-rightness. Train yourself so that you only want rightness, until you delight in it, possess the ease that comes from being naturally right, and cannot be swayed from it by anything.
Follow the way of simultaneous right faith, right knowledge, and right actions.
Care about what's right, and not fame, reputation, and poisition. Rather than being universally approved of or hated, it is better to have people’s right opinions approve of you, and their wrong opinions disapprove of you.
Recognize that you know what you know, and recognize that you do not know what you do not know.
Learn through examples, words/teachings, and personal experience.
What is simple and easy to do might be difficult and complex to explain, understand, and analyze.
Most of our wisdom lies deep.
Do not excessively judge yourself while doing something.
Taking your mind off irrelevancies and being focused on the process—this is not putting your mind on the fact that this is so.
Concentration is not really something that involves effort or activity—it is more like the opposite, like how an actor forgets himself in portraying a character.
Concentration is an interest in the thought and engrossment in the subject, and leads to perception, insight, knowledge, and rightness power.
“Non-action” is to produce without acting, and obtain without seeking.
Do not contest with Nature, think too deeply about the deepness of its way, use your ability to investigate its greatness, or scrutinize its mystery.
Adjust yourself to, move, and yield to Nature’s way, in order to distinguish distinctions and instantaneously respond to changes.
Treat right as right and wrong as wrong.
Personally and earnestly consider.
It can be great to remember, but it is often more valuable to forget what should be forgotten.
Properly combine mind and heart.
Live pure amidst impurities.