The world is full of suffering. Birth is suffering, decre- pitude is suffering, sickness and death are sufferings. To face a man of hatred is suffering, to be separated from a beloved one is suffering, to be vainly struggling to satisfy one's needs is suffering. In fact, life that is not free from desire and passion is always involved with suffering.

Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.

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

Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear

After 48 years, I have said nothing.

I know what I gave them; I don't know what they received.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.