Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.

One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more

All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit. To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.

Ultimate serenity is the coming to rest of all ways of taking things, the repose of named things; no truth has been taught by a Buddha for anyone, anywhere.

The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.