If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

The less you have, the less you have to worry about.

Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except yourself.

Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.

Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.

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.

Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.

Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings, perceptions, thoughts, and consciousness all interconnected. Investigating in this way, we come to realize that there is no me or mine in any one part, just as a sound does not belong to any one part of the lute.

I will teach you the Truth and the Path leading to the Truth.

With our thoughts we make the world.

Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.

Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable.

One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.

The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened.

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.