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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.