Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.

An pretend and evil friend is haughty to be feared than a unmanageable beast; a unmanageable beast may mouthful your build up, but an evil friend fortitude mouthful your intellect.

How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own.

The heavens and the earth may be captured by the mind's eye.

Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just like these, as the self-nature of things can not exist alone, they are called non-substantial.

People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who tries to eat a little, honey smeared on the edge of a knife. The amount is by no means sufficient to appease his appetite, but he runs the risk of wounding his tongue.

As I am, so are others as others are, so am I. Having thus identified self and others, harm no one nor have them harmed.