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

Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.

Our good and bad deeds follow us almost like a shadow.

A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing.

Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you to Nirvana.

Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.

If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.