It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is possible.

If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states of mind generated by these teachings, How much more so should you abandon bad states of mind!

I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.

Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released, but householders entertain no desire to be relieved from the ties of family. When a man's passion is aroused nothing prevents him from ruining himself. Even into the jaws of a tiger will he jump. Those who are thus drowned in the filth of passion are called the ignorant. Those who are able to overcome it are saintly Arhats.

If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.

Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.