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

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

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

The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

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.

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