155. If some gives you a nice fat, yellow banana that's sweet and fragrant but poisonous, will you eat? Most people will. They know that desire is poisonous, but they "eat" it anyway?

156. See you defilements; know them like you know a cobra's poison. You won't grab the cobra because you know it can kill you. See the harm in things harmful and the use in things useful.

157. We are always dissatisfied. In a sweet fruit. We miss the sour; in a sour fruit. We miss the sweet.

158. If you have something bad smelling in your pocket, wherever you go it will smell bad. Don’t blame it on the place.

159. Buddhism in the East today is like a big tree, which may look majestic, but can only give small and tasteless fruit. Buddhism in the west is like a sapling not yet able to bear fruit, but having the potential to give large, sweet ones.

160. People nowadays think too much. There are too many things for them to get interested in, but none of them lead to any true fulfillment.

161. Just because you go and call alcohol "perfume" doesn't make it become perfume, you know. But, you people, when you want to drink alcohol, you say it's perfume, then go ahead drink it. You must be crazy!

162. People are always looking outwards, at people and things. They look at this hall, for example, and say, "Oh, it's so big!" Actually it's not big at all. Whether or not it seems big, depend on your perception of it. In fact this hall is just the size it is, neither big nor small. But people run after their feelings all the tine. They are so busy looking around and having opinions what they see that they have no time to look at themselves.

163.  Some people get bored, fed up, tried of the practice and lazy. They can't seem to keep the Dhamma in mind. Yet, if you go and scold them, they'll never forget that. Some may remember it for the rest of their life and never forgive you for it. But when it comes to the Buddha's teaching, telling us to be moderate, to be restrained, to practice conscientiously, why do they keep forgetting these things? Why don’t people take these things to heart?

164. Seeing that we are better than others is not right. Seeing that we are equal to others is not right.  Seeing that we are inferior to others is not right. If we think we are better that others, pride arise. If we think we are equal to others, we fail to show respect and humanity at the proper time. If we are inferior to others, we get depressed thinking we are inferior, born under a bad sign and so on. Just let all of that go!