For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.

It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.

It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.

I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.