The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he understands, but he remains unattached to any of them.
Your suffering is my suffering and your happiness is my happiness.
When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you look upon the lost like one that stands on a mountain sees those that stand upon the plain.
What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.
For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.
I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind. The mind when undeveloped and uncultivated entails great suffering.
Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore.
Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not.
May all sentient beings be happy and free of suffering.
May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.
One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.
Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.
Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so, brahmins, is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering. One should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.
