Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.

You can only lose what you cling to.

In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

Teach you? I cannot teach you. Go; experience for yourself

To eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat.

The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail. Life as a human being is hard to sustain--as hard as it is for the dew to remain on the grass. But it is better to live a single day with honor than to live to 120 and die in disgrace.