Don't believe a teaching just because you've heard it from a man who's supposed to be holy, or because it's contained in a book supposed to be holy, or because all your friends and neighbors believe it. But whatever you've observed and analyzed for yourself and found to be reasonable and good, then accept that and put it into practice.

In what is seen, there should be just the seen; In what is heard, there should be just the heard; In what is sensed, there should be just the sensed; In what is thought, there should be just the thought. He should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should he incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak in the world.

All living beings have Buddha nature and can become Buddhas.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.

Flower and thorn are in the same stem.

I am a finger pointing to the moon. Don't look at me; look at the moon.

For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.