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.
Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.
Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.
All composite things pass away. Strive for your own liberation with diligence.
Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.
Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.
Happiness is a journey not a destination, work like you don’t need money, love like you never been hurt, and dance like no ones looking.