There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.

Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else

Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real humanitarianism.

The four catagories of existance, non-existance, both existance and non-existance, and neither existance nor non-existance, are spiderwebs among spiderwebs which can never take hold of the enormous bird of reality

Let us live in joy, never falling sick like those who hate us. Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among those who hate.

Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!

All fear violence, all are afraid of death.