Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.
If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.
By your own efforts waken yourself, watch yourself. And live joyfully.
A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering.
This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.
Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.
Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.
Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think.
Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.
War ends only when people love each other.
And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay.
If you are tossed about by doubts, full of strong thoughtless passions, and yearning only for that which is detrimental, your thirst will grow stronger and stronger, unquenched, and your pain will grow with your defilements.
The seeker is that which is being sought.
Dispassion is the best of mental states. . . .
There are, O monks, these four lights. What four? The light of the moon, the light of the sun, the light of fire, and the light of wisdom. Of these four lights, the light of wisdom is supreme.
For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.
The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions
If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.
Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to and take as your guide.
Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think.
The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness.
May we live like the lotus, at home in muddy water.
All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives, you are Buddha.
Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.
