Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.
Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already.
How can one ever know anything if they are too busy thinking?
Forgive and be free. Forget that you have forgiven and be freer.
Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.
Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on the mental and physical aggregates.
Offend in neither word nor deed. Eat with moderation. Live in your heart. Seek the highest consciousness. Master yourself according to the law. This is the simple teaching of the awakened.
Life is uncertain; death is certain.
I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.
Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.
One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world.
Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.
When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known.
A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.
This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.
It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one’s own mind.
I teach about suffering and the way to end it.
Temperance is a tree which has for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit, calm and peace.
The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he understands, but he remains unattached to any of them.