Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.

When a monk is an arahant, with his fermentations ended - one who has reached fulfillment, done the task, laid down the burden, attained the true goal, totally destroyed the fetter of becoming, and is released through right gnosis - the thought doesn't occur to him that 'There is someone better than me,' or 'There is someone equal to me,' or 'There is someone worse than me.'

It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

Those who walk in the Way should avoid sensualism as those who carry hay would avoid coming near the fire.

For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

Here will I live in the rainy season, here in the autumn and in the summer: thus muses the fool. He realizes not the danger (of death).