Passage 10

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In plain words

But without seeds nothing is born. Trees are born from seeds alone. Only when the seeds called good feelings, good thoughts and good conduct are in the earth of our heart do they keep springing up there as trees. What makes good thoughts come into us? We must plant good feelings. Where are those seeds? They come with samyak darśanam, good seeing. Then samyak feelings are born in us. They turn into samyak vacanam, good words. That turns into samyak karmas. They take shape as samyak sādhanas. That takes shape as samyak jīvanam. What every man must achieve today is samyak jīvanam. For samyak jīvanam, samyak dṛṣṭi is most necessary. So we must not try to look at whatever there is. Some try to look at everyone they come across. One may say that is their lot. Look only at those you should look at; talk only with those you should talk with. When you talk with everyone needlessly, their feelings enter you. Yad bhāvaṃ tad bhavati: those very feelings take shape in you. We must not look at just anyone. We must not talk with just anyone. When you keep that feeling rightly in view, life becomes samyak jīvanam. At the very end, at the time of attaining nirvāṇa, the Buddha recognised one thing. In this kind of world, Jñāna does not come from the learning one has learnt or the teachings one has heard. All this is bookish knowledge, cleverness that comes from acquaintance with books; it has not truly arisen from our heart. He went to Buddha Gayā and sat there under a banyan tree. He turned his vision into a sacred one. Through that, good feelings kept coming from within him. Because those good feelings came, he kept speaking good words. By those good words he drew everyone to him. All the young men set out after the Buddha. What was the reason? There was good speech, good feeling and good vision. Once he saw a student who was walking with him; two women were carrying water from the river Gaṅgā.