To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.

Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.

Give the people - confidence. Give the people - delight. Give the people - hope. Give the people - the best.

Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

Analyzing through special insight and realizing the lack of inherent existence constitute understanding of the signless.