Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.

You are the source of all purity and impurity. No one purifies another.

As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world

He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is truly called one who is bound upstream.

One who previously made bad karma, but who reforms and creates good karma, brightens the world like the moon appearing from behind a cloud.

Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.