To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

Joyful is the accumulation of good work.

Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.

A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.

He who never thinks of anything as 'mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.

All things that are born must die. Work hard for your own freedom from sorrow.

I will purify my bodily actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my verbal actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my mental actions through repeated reflection. That's how you should train yourself.