Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.

Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

He who never thinks of anything as 'mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.

You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of defilements.

To abstain from lying is essentially wholesome.

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