Do not speak – unless it improves on silence.
Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a lamp overturned and re-lit, illuminating the darkness.
Let yourself be open and life will be easier.
Your actions are your only true belongings.
Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
As you travel through life, offer good wishes to each being you meet.
No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free.
The mind contains all possibilities.
To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.
If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.
To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.
In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view.
For the wakeful one whose mind is quiet, whose thoughts are undisturbed, who has relinquished judgement and blame, there is no fear.
Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks.
Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel. Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.
Apply yourself to solitude. One who is given to solitude knows things as they really are.
This is deathless: the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging.
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.
It is better to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.