It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.
Live in Joy, In love, Even among those who hate. Live in joy, In health, Even among the afflicted. Live in joy, In peace, Even among the troubled. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.
Fill your mind with compassion.
We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis...
A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated – this is the greatest blessing.
All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.
As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.
As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
I will not look at another’s bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.
If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
The root of suffering is attachment.
Whoever doesn’t flare up at someone who’s angry wins a battle hard to win.
You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.
If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.
Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape from the results of evil deeds.
When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him – like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.
All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?