Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream

Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon you, ... Wonderful and delightful though they are, The Buddhas may nevertheless frighten you. Do not give in to your fright! Do not run away! Serenely contemplate the spectacle before you! Overcome your fear, and feel no desire! Realize that these are the rays of the grace of the Buddhas, who come to receive you into their Buddha-realms. Pray to them with intense faith and humility.

When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.

Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up the world.

They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.

If you are tossed about by doubts, full of strong thoughtless passions, and yearning only for that which is detrimental, your thirst will grow stronger and stronger, unquenched, and your pain will grow with your defilements.

As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.