When a man venerates those worthy of veneration, be they Buddhas or their disciples, who have transcended all obstacles and passed beyond sorrow and tears - venerating such as these, whose passions are extinguished and for whom there is no further source for fear, no one can calculate how great his merit is.

Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.

As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

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

When you realize how perfect [or at least better than it could be] everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

Cultivation of meditative stability alone, will not destroy the discrimination of inherent existence. Afflictive emotions can return, making all sorts of disturbances

Anyone who is not working toward the truth is missing the whole point of living.