This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?
Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.
The one who wanders independent in the world, free from opinions and viewpoints, does not grasp them and enter into disputations and arguments. As the lotus rises on its stalk unsoiled by the mud and the water, so the wise one speaks of peace and is unstained by the opinions of the world.
Your worst enemy is your best teacher.
Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.
Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.
Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves.
The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful.
Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.
Observe the life by cause and consequence. Explore the life by wisdom. Treat the life by equality. Complete the life by love.
All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependent-arisings. all phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependently imputed.
Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.
Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.
Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.
The masters only point the way. But if you meditate And follow the dharma You will free yourself from desire. ‘Everything arises and passes away.’ When you see this, you are above sorrow. This is the shining way.
To understand everything is to forgive everything.
With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.