When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known.

Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, 'This is not mine, this is not what I am, this is not my self.'

Follow the way of virtue. Follow the way joyfully through this world and on beyond.

A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.

Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you."

If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.