When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.

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.

Everything that happens to us is the result of what we ourselves have thought, said, or done.We alone are responsible for our lives.

Each day of my life I am sowing seeds that one day I will harvest.

Remember that the only constant in life is change.

Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind

It is within this fathoms-long carcass, with its mind and its notions, that I declare there is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world and the path leading to the cessation of the world.