The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters.
The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure.
If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.
Yet the Teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be pure. At the end of the way is freedom.
One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.
Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again.
With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart: above, below, and all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate.
Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up.
The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.
Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith.
The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.
Rage is a powerful energy that with diligent practice can be transformed into fierce compassion. However much we disagree with our enemies, our task is to identify with them. They too feel justified in their point of view.
Our life is a creation of our mind.
If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.
To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.
Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day’s life of one who is wise and meditative.
Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook, but the ocean’s depths are calm.
From a withered tree, a flower blooms.
If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace.
Those which arise dependently are free of inherent existence.