The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.

The world is full of suffering. Birth is suffering, decre- pitude is suffering, sickness and death are sufferings. To face a man of hatred is suffering, to be separated from a beloved one is suffering, to be vainly struggling to satisfy one's needs is suffering. In fact, life that is not free from desire and passion is always involved with suffering.

Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.

A jug fills drop by drop.

True and lasting inner peace can never be found in external things. It can only be found within in. And then, once we find and nurture it with ourselves, it radiates outward.

Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.

Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.