If dresses would have qualified people, then whores would have ruled the world.

Do not learn how to react. Learn how to respond.

For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.

Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.

There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future.

It is within this fathoms-long carcass, with its mind and its notions, that I declare there is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world and the path leading to the cessation of the world.

Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream