True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.

Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.

Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp.

No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.

If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.

Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content.

Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again.