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

A man who will be the public leader, must know how to be the public follower.

Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.

A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.

Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the cartwheel follows the foot of the draft animal. If with a pure mind, you speak or act, then happiness follows you as a shadow that never departs

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise.