All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives, you are Buddha.

Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.

Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.

Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.Without reactions the world becomes clear.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Whatever grounds there are for making merit productive of a future birth, all these do not equal a sixteenth part of the liberation of mind by loving-kindness. The liberation of mind by loving-kindness surpasses them and shines forth, bright and brilliant.

Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence... Enter into rapture and pleasure born of silence derived of concentration and awareness that is free from thought and fabrication.