When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.
All the holy words you read and all the holy words you speak are as nothing if you do not act upon them. Even if you read little and say little but live the right way, forsaking craving, hatred and delusion, you will know the truth and find calmness and will show others the path.
The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail. Life as a human being is hard to sustain – as hard as it is for the dew to remain on the grass. But it is better to live a single day with honor than to live to 120 and die in disgrace.
The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage.
On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.
Winter always turns into Spring.
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.