If you can, please let me know how. Yes, I can. If you turn to the Buddha. Irrigators lead the waters. Fletchers bend the shafts.
Carpenters bend the wood.
The wise control themselves. Just as a water-course is dammed and directed through channels towards a chosen direction, so too the mind must be bent and consciously directed towards good, towards virtue, towards righteousness. To amass wealth, to dig up the treasures from the bowels of the earth, man makes laborious efforts and spends enormous sums of money, but to dig up the invaluable treasures of the mind, man makes little or no effort. But to make the effort man has first to realize, he has first to understand the mysterious and mighty potentialities hidden within his mind. On the other hand, if, though well aware of the natural destructive forces within him, man makes little or no effort to curb them, he thereby causes untold misery to himself and to others.