I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.

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

There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned. If, monks, there were no unborn... no escape would be discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned. But because there is an unborn..., therefore an escape is discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned.

There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.

One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.

Do not carry with you your mistakes. Do not carry your cares. Travel on alone. Like an elephant in the forest.

The four catagories of existance, non-existance, both existance and non-existance, and neither existance nor non-existance, are spiderwebs among spiderwebs which can never take hold of the enormous bird of reality