To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

Harm no other beings. They are just your brothers and sisters.

To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat.

There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension, to vision and knowledge, to a happy life here and now, and to the culmination of wisdom and awakening. And what is that one thing? It is mindfulness centred on the body

Love yourself and be awake- Today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, Then teach others, And so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing- Straighten yourself. You are your only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, And discover your master.

By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure.

The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.