We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes, and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end.
Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow.
As I am, so are others as others are, so am I. Having thus identified self and others, harm no one nor have them harmed.
The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay does not travel far. But the fragrance of virtue rises to the heavens.
Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.
The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.
By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes.
Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing aside.
You too shall pass away. Knowing this, how can you quarrel?
Follow the way of virtue. Follow the way joyfully through this world and on beyond.
Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.
Live joyfully, without desire.
If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company.
Nirvana is this moment seen directly. There is no where else than here. The only gate is now. The only doorway is your own body and mind. There’s nowhere to go. There’s nothing else to be. There’s no destination. It’s not something to aim for in the afterlife. It’s simply the quality of this moment.
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.