The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven.

Confusion conditions activity, which conditions consciousness, which conditions embodied personality, which conditions sensory experiences, which conditions impact, which conditions mood, which conditions craving, which conditions clinging, which conditions becoming, which conditions birth, which conditions aging and death.

A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.

Those which arise dependently are free of inherent existence.

Nothing is to be clung to as I, me or mine

Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.