To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat... the food of the wise is that which is consumed by the sadhus [holymen]; it does not consist of meat... There may be some foolish people in the future who will say that I permitted meat-eating and that I partook of meat myself, but... meat-eating I have not permitted to anyone, I do not permit, I will not permit meat-eating in any form, in any manner and in any place; it is unconditionally prohibited for all.

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

If we destroy something around us we destroy ourselves. If we cheat another, we cheat ourselves.

One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are set up through the power of thought. Through the power of conceptuality the world is established