All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create disticntions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the Discipline. If they are neither traceable in the Discourses nor verifiable by the Discipline, one must conclude thus: 'Certainly, this is not the Blessed One's utterance; this has been misunderstood by that bhikkhu - or by that community, or by those elders, or by that elder.' In that way, bhikkhus, you should reject it.

A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.

Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.

The mind precedes all things, the mind dominates all things, the mind creates all things.

You create what you defend against.