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.

...One who possesses four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there. What four? Bodily good conduct, verbal good conduct, mental good conduct, and gratitude or thankfulness. One possessing these four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there.

People with opinions just go around bothering each other.

He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

Thousands upon thousands of lights is inferior to a light of heart.

Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.