The affairs of the world will go on forever, do not delay the practice of meditation. Once you have met with the profound instructions from a meditation master, with single-pointed determination, set about realizing the Truth.

In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done.

Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.

When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once.

You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves.

To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.

He who knows that all things are his mind, That all with which he meets are friendly, Is ever joyful.

My religion is not deceiving myself.

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion, I have forgotten all difference between myself and others.

I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing.

One should see that all appearance is like mist and fog.

How senseless to disregard one's life by fighting foes who are but frail flowers. How foolish to spend your lifetime without meaning when a precious human body is so rare a gift.

I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions, the intermediate suffering of having to guard and keep up possessions, nor the final suffering of losing the possessions.

When one comes to the essence of being, the shining wisdom of reality illumines all like the cloudless sky.

In the gap between thoughts, nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.

When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick.

All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others.

If one stays too long with friends, they will soon tire of him; living in such closeness leads to dislike and hate. It is but human to expect and demand too much when one dwells too long in companionship.

My religion is to live - and die - without regret.

At first, money is like the wish-fulfilling Gem. Later, it becomes indispensable. In the end; you feel like a penniless beggar.

Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?

Do not entertain hopes for realization, but practice all your life.

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.