Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

It is in this way that I went forth to teach.

I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.

Drink deeply. Live in serenity and joy.

The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.

Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not carried out by the speaker.

As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.