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.

Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned.

A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.

All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.

There is no fire like passion: there is no evil and hatred.

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.

Thousands upon thousands of lights is inferior to a light of heart.