The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.

The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters.

We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is inherent in youth, the nature of sickness is inherent in health, in the midst of life we are verily in death.

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck.