1. Avoid a teacher whose heart is set on acquiring worldly fame and possessions
2. Avoid friends and followers who are detrimental to your peace of mind and spiritual growth
3. Avoid living where there happen to be many people who annoy and distract you
4. Avoid making a living by means of deceit and theft
5. Avoid actions that harm your mind and impede your spiritual development
6. Avoid thoughless acts that lower you in the esteem of others
7. Avoid useless conduct and actions
8. Avoid concealing your own faults while speaking loudly of others'
9. Avoid food and habits that disagree with your health
10. Avoid attachments that are inspired by avarice

The Ten Things Not to be Avoided

1. Ideas, being the radience of the mind, are not to be avoided
2. Thought-forms, being the revelry of reality, are not to be avoided
3. Obscuring passions, being the means of reminding one of the need to be wise, are not to be avoided
4. Affluence, being the manure and water for spiritual growth, are not to be avoided
5. Illness and troubles, being teachers of piety, are not to be avoided
6. Enemies and misfortune, being the means of inclining one to a releigious career, are not to be avoided
7. That which comes of itself, being a divine gift, is not to be avoided
8. Reason, being in every action the best friend, is not to be avoided
9. Such devotional exercises of body and mind as one is capable of performing are not to be avoided
10. The thought of helping others, howsoever limited one's ability to help others may be, is not to be avoided