One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.

If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear.

To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.

Those who walk in the Way should avoid sensualism as those who carry hay would avoid coming near the fire.

Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness.

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.