You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of defilements.

If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it.

All created things are impermanent. Strive diligently.

A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.

This is deathless: the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging.

As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.

If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.