When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.

Beings are owners of their actions, heirs of their actions; they originate from their actions, are bound to their actions, have their actions as their refuge. It is action that distinguishes beings as inferior and superior.

The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.

In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock them down, cease to play with them, apply yourself to the destruction of craving for them. Verily, ... the extinction of craving is Nirvana.

The world is on fire! And you are laughing? You are deep in the dark. Will you not ask for a light?

The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.

When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known.