Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.

Mindfulness of the body leads to nirvana.

Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.

O seeker! Rely on nothing until you want nothing.

Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.

Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor.

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