By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.

If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy.

When one is writing a letter, he should think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll.

You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.

There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you will still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.

In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and size of mercy is limitless.

By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?