Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life.
Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.
Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts
The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.
You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred
When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is
Nothing is to be clung to as I, me or mine
The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.
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.
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
There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.
I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.
Cultivation of meditative stability alone, will not destroy the discrimination of inherent existence. Afflictive emotions can return, making all sorts of disturbances
Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.
Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.
Just as you have come to know, the false discrimination of yourself, apply this mentally to all phenomena
Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views
You yourself must earnestly practice, the enlightened ones only proclaim the path.
Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are set up through the power of thought. Through the power of conceptuality the world is established
When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one's mind remains unshaken, sorrow-less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare
Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the cartwheel follows the foot of the draft animal. If with a pure mind, you speak or act, then happiness follows you as a shadow that never departs
As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.
Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones
Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on the mental and physical aggregates
Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on to the deathless stage experienced by the wise
