Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you.

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones

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.

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.

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