All individual things pass away, strive on untiringly.
You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don't give up.
All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.
To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children and to be engaged in peaceful occupation-this is the greatest blessing.
The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.
All conditioned things are impermanent-when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.
If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current-how can he help others across?
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.
Live with no sense of 'mine,' not forming attachment to experiences.
In whom there is no sympathy for living beings: know him as an outcast.
Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.
I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.
Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure.
Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.
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.
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.
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.
Let those who desire Buddhahood not train in many Dharmas but only one. Which one? Great compassion. Those with great compassion possess all the Buddha's teaching as if it were in the palm of their hand.
What is the happiness ? Is it really happiness ? Nothing stable, just happen, stay and decay... Everything is impermanence, dissatisfaction and nothing can ever belong to itself.
First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words; Second, rely on the teachings, not on the personality of the teacher; Third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial interpretation; And fourth, rely on the essence of your pure Wisdom Mind, not on judgmental perceptions.
