Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.

It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

To be concerned with the issue; soul versus non-soul, is to be in bondage to craving for becoming and non-becoming.

The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.

Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.