Happy are those who have overcome their egos; happy are those who have attained peace; happy are those who have found the Truth.
Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, “it will not benefit me.” As by the falling of raindrops a jar of water is filled, so the wise person becomes full of good, even though he or she collects it little by little.
Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path.
If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out.
If you know something hurtful and not true, don’t say it. If you know something hurtful and true, don’t say it. If you know something helpful but not true, don’t say it. If you know something helpful and true, find the right time to say it.
As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births.
Crying with the wise is better than laughing with the fool.
If you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself to be pleased by good. Accumulating good is joyful.
The good shine from afar Like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don’t appear Even when near, Like arrows shot into the night.
For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.
Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn, unageing, und.
Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again.
It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.
What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.
Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people will not see me.
To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.
All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.
O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.
I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.
If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever.