All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependent-arisings. all phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependently imputed.
I look upon the judgment of right and wrong as the serpentine dance of a dragon, and the rise and fall of beliefs as but traces left by the four seasons.
Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
However young, the seeker who sets out upon the way Shines bright over the world. But day and night the person who is awake Shines in the radiance of the spirit. Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work, with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine!
Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.
He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is truly called one who is bound upstream.
Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench.
O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.
Not even death can wipe out our good deeds
Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.
He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.
Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive. Wonder of wonders.
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Give the people - confidence. Give the people - delight. Give the people - hope. Give the people - the best.
When you realize how perfect [or at least better than it could be] everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.
When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Don't blindly believe what I say. Don't believe me because others convince you of my words. Don't believe anything you see, read, or hear from others, whether of authority, religious teachers or texts.
Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to the winning of knowledge and insight, to pleasant living in this very life, to the realization of the fruit of release by knowledge. What is that one thing: It is mindfulness centered on the body.
O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never forget, that compassion makes the world noble and beautiful.
Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real humanitarianism.
Live happily, not hating even those who are hostile. Live peacefully even amongst those that hate.
Analyzing through special insight and realizing the lack of inherent existence constitute understanding of the signless.
The hunger of passions is the greatest disease.
A good horse runs with seeing just the shadow of the whip.
