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Do not carry with you your mistakes. Do not carry your cares. Travel on alone. Like an elephant in the forest.
The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay does not travel far. But the fragrance of virtue rises to the heavens.
Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.
Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect
Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.
You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love.
The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.
A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.
Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.
Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.
It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind.
Do not look at the faults of what others have done or not done; observe what you yourself have done or not done.
Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering.
Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned.
Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stifled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal.
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible.
I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.
Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.
From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger... Let a man overcome anger by love.
Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.
As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth.
If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.
If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.
Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
Seeker, empty the boat, lighten the load, be free of craving and judgment and hatred, and feel the joy of the way.
One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.
Love is beauty and beauty is truth, and that is why in the beauty of a flower we can see the truth of the universe.
If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.
To be concerned with the issue; soul versus non-soul, is to be in bondage to craving for becoming and non-becoming.
It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.
Journey over, sorrowless, freed in every way, and with all bonds broken - for such a man there is no more distress.
To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.
Why cling to the pain and the wrongs of yesterday? Why hold on to the very things that keep you from hope and love.
Do not breathing in the chronological, do not dream of the later, drain the intellect on the bring about twinkling.
Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt
After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.
If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.
Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.
We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?
Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.
He who never thinks of anything as 'mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.
Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?
Speak the truth. Give whatever you can. Never be angry. These three steps will lead you Into the presence of the gods.