All individual things pass away, strive on untiringly.
By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure. The pure and the impure come from oneself: no man can purify another.
We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by loving kindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it.
There are four nutriments for the maintenance of beings who have come into being or for the support of those in search of a place to be born: Physical food, gross or refined; touch as the second; thinking the third; and consciousness the fourth.
Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.
Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure.
I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.
Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.
In whom there is no sympathy for living beings: know him as an outcast.
Live with no sense of 'mine,' not forming attachment to experiences.
Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.
If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current-how can he help others across?
All conditioned things are impermanent-when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.
The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.
To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children and to be engaged in peaceful occupation-this is the greatest blessing.
All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.
They blame those who remain silent, they blame those who speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed.
Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.
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.
