Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.

I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.

What is this world condition? Body is the world condition. And with body and form goes feeling, perception, consciousness, and all the activities throughout the world. The arising of form and the ceasing of form-everything that has been heard, sensed, and known, sought after and reached by the mind-all this is the embodied world, to be penetrated and realized.

An evil deed, like fresh milk, does not go bad suddenly. Smouldering, like fire covered by ashes, the evil deed follows the fool.

Analyzing through special insight and realizing the lack of inherent existence constitute understanding of the signless.

Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.