How does one guard oneself? By shunning what is base. And how is this achieved?
By shunning fruitless waste. And how can this be done? By constant mindfulness,
which gains in keenness by devoted zeal. And zeal arises if one comes to know
the greatness that in inner stillness lies.
Not far from here you have to seek: sublimest heavens what will they avail?
Here in this present aggregation, in your own body will you find it all.
At the five sense doors spread the net of Mindfulness, so fine and subtle. In
it defilements will be caught, and can be killed by insight clear.
Do not hark back to things that passed, and for the future cherish not fond
hopes; the past was left behind by thee, the future state has not yet come.
But who with vision clear can see the present which is here and now, such wise
one should aspire to win what never can be lost nor shaken.