If you know something hurtful and not true, don't say it. If you know something hurtful and true, don't say it. If you know something helpful but not true, don't say it. If you know something helpful and true, find the right time to say it.

In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony

Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.

Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.

Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.

Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.

Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.