True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment. Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.

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.

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

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

That which arises dependent on something is not in the least that thing, neither is it different from it. Therefore, it is neither permanent or nothing.

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.