Though thousand times a thousand in battle one may conquer, yet should one conquer just oneself, one is the greatest conqueror.
Nothing is to be clung to as I, me or mine.
You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death.
Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones.
Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the cartwheel follows the foot of the draft animal. If with a pure mind, you speak or act, then happiness follows you as a shadow that never departs.
Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on to the deathless stage experienced by the wise.
You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred.
Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views.
When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is.
Through one all are known, through one all are also seen.
When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the fruit, nirvana. One does not go to peace through any other cause.
Just as you have come to know, the false discrimination of yourself, apply this mentally to all phenomena.
Cultivation of meditative stability alone, will not destroy the discrimination of inherent existence. Afflictive emotions can return, making all sorts of disturbances.
Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are set up through the power of thought. Through the power of conceptuality the world is established.
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
I am a finger pointing to the moon. Don’t look at me; look at the moon.
We are what we think.
Drink deeply. Live in serenity and joy.
Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy.