Learn to ne happy with what you have.

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

People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who tries to eat a little, honey smeared on the edge of a knife. The amount is by no means sufficient to appease his appetite, but he runs the risk of wounding his tongue.

What is this world condition? Body is the world condition. And with body and form goes feeling, perception, consciousness, and all the activities throughout the world. The arising of form and the ceasing of form-everything that has been heard, sensed, and known, sought after and reached by the mind-all this is the embodied world, to be penetrated and realized.

No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.