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

Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear

Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned.

But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest.

One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. This is a helpful pointer for our everyday presence-practice. Can you catch yourself angrily defending your point of view or attacking the other person's? There's the ego.