1. Just as a fletcher straightens an arrow 🏹 shaft, even so the discerning man straightens 📏 is mind - so fickle and unsteady, so difficult to guard 🛡️.
2. As a fish 🐠 when pulled out of water 🌊 and cast on land throbs and quivers, even so is this mind agitated. Hence should one abandon the realm of Mara 👹.
3. Wonderful, indeed, it is to subdue the mind, so difficult 😓 to subdue, ever swift 💨, and seizing whatever it desires 🤑 💎. A tamed mind brings happiness.
4. Let the discerning man guard the mind 🛡️, so difficult 😓 to detect and extremely subtle, seizing whatever it desires. A guarded mind brings happiness 🕊️.
5. Dwelling in the cave (of the heart ❤️), the mind, without form, wanders far and alone. Those who subdue this mind are liberated from the bonds of Mara 👹.
6. Wisdom never becomes perfect in one whose mind is not steadfast, who knows not the Good Teaching and whose faith wavers.
7. There is no fear 🛡️ for an awakened one 🕊️, who mind 💭 is not sodden (by lust 💸👠) nor afflicted (by hate 😡) and who has gone beyond both merit 🥇 and demerit.
8. Realizing that this body 🧍‍♂️ is as fragile as a clay pot 🪴, and fortifying this mind 🧠 is like a well-fortified city, fight out Mara 👹 with the sword ⚔️ of wisdom 📕. Then, guarding 🛡️ the conquest, remain unattached 🌤️.
9. Ere long, alas! this body will lie upon the earth, unheeded and lifeless 🔃, like a useless log 🪵.
10. Whatever harm an enemy 🪓 may do to any enemy, or a hater to a hater 😡, an ill-directed mind inflicts 🤺 on oneself a greater harm 🩸.
11. Neither mother, father, nor any other relative can do one greater good 🕊️ than one’s well-directed mind 🧠.

Dhammapada 33-37

Dhammapada 38-43