Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.

Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt

Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.

Those which arise dependently are free of inherent existence.

Happiness never decreased by being shared.

For soon the body is discarded, Then what does it feel? A useless log of wood, it lies on the ground, Then what does it know? Your worst enemy cannot harm you As much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, No one can help you as much, Not even your father or your mother.

Meat-eating is condemned by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Sravakas; if one devours meat out of shamelessness he will always be devoid of sense.