It is time for all to seek deliverance from the pains of birth, death, old age, and sickness. Outflows of depravity and defilement are everywhere, and there is nothing in which you can find true joy. You should resolutely do worthy deeds with decorum , strive to do more good, control and purify your selves , wash off the mind’s defilements , be sincere in word and deed, and allow no contradiction between what you think and what you do.

(The Sutra of Immeasurable Life)