Don't run after pleasure and neglect the practice of meditation. If you forget the goal of life and get caught in the pleasures of the world, you will come to envy those who put meditation first.
It seems that we are actually impermanent, though we thought ourselves permanent; it seems that we are actually transient, though we thought ourselves everlasting; it seems that we are actually non-eternal, though we thought ourselves eternal.
If you meditate earnestly, pure in mind and kind in deeds, leading a disciplined life in harmony with the dharma, you will grow in glory. If you meditate earnestly, through spiritual disciplines you can make an island for yourself that no flood can overwhelm.
Not by rituals and resolutions, nor by much learning, nor by celibacy, nor even by meditation can you find the supreme, immortal joy of nirvana until you extinguish your self-will.
Your own self is your master; who else could be? With yourself well controlled, you gain a master very hard to find.
Good people keep on walking whatever happens. They do not speak vain words and are the same in good fortune and bad. If one desires neither children nor wealth nor power nor success by unfair means, know such a one to be good, wise and virtuous.
Let him not deceive another nor despise anyone anywhere. In anger or ill will let him not wish another ill.
Whatever living beings there may be-feeble or strong, long, stout or of medium size, short, small, large, those seen or those unseen, those dwelling far or near, those who are born as well as those yet to be born-may all beings have happy minds.
Understanding is the heartwood of well-spoken words.
As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
The one in whom no longer exist the craving and thirst that perpetuate becoming; how could you track that Awakened one, trackless and of limitless range.
Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is Awakened.
As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard or the sensed.
It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.
All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.
Ceasing to do evil, Cultivating the good, Purifying the heart: This is the teaching of the Buddhas.
Whatever has the nature of arising has the nature of ceasing.
Whatever is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness & benefit.
There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires.
Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.
