Hunger (for things) is the supreme disease.

To eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat.

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create disticntions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

The Buddhas, the World-Honored Ones, for one great cause alone appear in the world. The Buddhas, the World-Honored Ones, appear in the world because they wish to cause the beings to hear of the Buddha's knowledge and insight and thus enable them to gain purity. They appear in the world because they wish to demonstrate the Buddha's knowledge and insight to the beings. They appear in the world because they wish to cause the beings to understand. They appear in the world because they wish to cause the beings to enter into the path of the Buddha's knowledge and insight.

Dispassion is the best of mental states. . . .

Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.

Love is beauty and beauty is truth, and that is why in the beauty of a flower we can see the truth of the universe.