Buddhist Maxims The best: Achievement is selflessness. Worth is self mastery. Quality is seeking to serve others. Precept is continual awareness. Medicine is the emptiness of everything. Action is not conforming with the world. Magic is transmuting the passions. Generosity is non-attachment. Goodness is a peaceful mind. Patience is humility. Effort is not for results. Meditation is a mind that lets go. Wisdom is seeing through appearances.