You yourselves must strive;
the Buddhas only point the way.
Those meditative ones who tread the path
are released from the bonds of Mara.

This is the only path;
there is none other for the purification of insight.
Tread this path;
and you will bewilder Mara.

Walking upon this path
you will make an end of suffering.

Of all paths the Eightfold Path is the best;
of all truthsthe Four Noble Truths are the best;
of all thingspassionless is the best;
of all menthe Seeing One is the best.

When we hear only language that is foul and abusive,
This is the wheel of sharp weapons returning
Full circle upon us from wrongs we have done.

When we lack any freedom, but must obey others,
This is the wheel of sharp weapons returning full circle upon us from wrongs we have done.

When hunger or violent thirst overwhelms us,
This is the wheel of sharp weapons returning full circle upon us from wrongs we have done. Till now we have kept what we had without sharing;

Verse 10
When our bodies are aching and racked with great torment of dreadful diseases we cannot endure,

Mind precedes all unwholesome state and is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. if with an impure mind a person speaks or acts, misery follows him like the wheel that dogs the foot of the ox

Samsara is extremely unsatisfactory,
From seeing the Truth one crosses over,
The Eight-fold path which transcends existence,
Eradicates all unsatisfactoriness.