Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.
You must take action yourself, for Buddhas only teach the way.
Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.
Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise.
Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.
Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light.
Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again.
Make of yourself a light.
It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.
You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death
The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.
One who is wise and disciplined, always kind and intelligent, humble and free from pride. One like this will be praised.
All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.
One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.
Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already.
Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.
One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.
Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle.
What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind. If a man speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering will follow him as the wheel of the cart follows the beast that draws the cart. If a man speaks or acts with a pure mind, joy follows him as his own shadow.
Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.
Drink deeply. Live in serenity and joy.
Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
Do not believe anything because it is said by an authority, or if it is said to come from angels, or from Gods, or from an inspired source. Believe it only if you have explored it in your own heart and mind and body and found it to be true. Work out your own path, through diligence.
After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.
There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river.
