The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.
Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given.
Of bones the city is made, Plastered with flesh and blood, Where decay and death are deposited, And pride, and ingratitude.
Don't give yourself to negligence. Don't devote yourself to sensual pleasure. Vigilant and absorbed in meditation, one attains abundant happiness.
Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, her only son, so one should cultivate an unbounded mind towards all beings, and loving-kindness towards all the world.
The less you have, the less you have to worry about.
Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
Greater than all the joys of heaven and earth, Greater still than dominion over all the worlds, Is the joy of reaching the stream.
I having pierced through the shell of ignorance for the sake of creatures wrapped in ignorance, egg-born (as it were), am unique in the world, utterly enlightened with unsurpassed enlightenment. I myself am the world's eldest and highest.
I am the owner of my actions,[karma] heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that will I fall heir.
Meditate, Ānanda, do not delay, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.
Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.
From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief - so how fear?
Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith.
The darkest night is ignorance.
How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.
Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.
The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next.
Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me.
Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
