Let yourself be open and life will be easier.
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
You can conquer thousands of men in thousands of battles, but the greatest victory is to conquer yourself.
Teach you? I cannot teach you. Go; experience for yourself.
And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.
A good horse runs with seeing just the shadow of the whip.
A man who will be the public leader, must know how to be the public follower.
Your greatest weapon is your enemy’s mind.
Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.
When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.
Suffering is an illusion.
What is most needed is a loving heart.
Make of yourself a light.
The wind cannot overturn a mountain. Temptation cannot touch the man Who is awake, strong and humble, Who masters hiself and minds the law.
In every trial Let understanding fight for you.
To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.
Dharma is not upheld by talking about it. Dharma is upheld by living in harmony with it...
Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.
Meat-eating is condemned by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Sravakas; if one devours meat out of shamelessness he will always be devoid of sense.
The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.
We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?