Patience is the highest asceticism.
Through countless births in the cycle of existence I have run, not finding although seeking the builder of this house; and again and again I faced the suffering of new birth. Oh housebuilder! Now you...
Bhikkus, all is burning. And what is the all that is burning?The eye is burning, visible forms are burning, eye-consciousness is burning, eye-contact is burning; also whatever is felt as pleasant or p...
These... things, householder, are welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world:Long life is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world.Beauty is welcome, agreeable, ple...
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.
When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.
Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.
All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.
Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion.
Mirror mirror on the wall, show the real me or naught at all.
Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.
It is like a lighted torch whose flame can be distributed to ever so many other torches which people may bring along; and therewith they will cook food and dispel darkness, while the original torch it...
Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
those which arise dependently are free of inherent existence.
Like a caring motherholding and guarding the lifeof her only child,so with a boundless heartof lovingkindness,hold yourself and all beingsas your beloved children.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.
Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.
It is better to travel, than to arrive