Philosophical Sayings

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

By oneself is evil done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone; by oneself is one made pure. Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another.

If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.

Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others.

Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.

Whoever doesn't flare up at someone who's angry wins a battle that's hard to win.

The Enlightened One is deep, boundless, hard to fathom, like the ocean.

'As I am, so are they; as they are, so am I.' Comparing others with oneself, do not kill nor cause others to kill.

A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated — this is the greatest blessing.

I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.

The body, monks, is not self. If the body were the self, this body would not lend itself to dis-ease.

Where self is, truth is not. Where truth is, self is not.

We are but guests visiting this world, though most do not know this.

Perform those actions you will never regret: actions that will ripen into future joy and delight.

The fragrance of holiness travels even against the wind.

One who drinks deeply of the Dharma with a clear and open mind, rests well.

Senseless talk brings suffering, for it is thrown right back to you.

All conditioned things have the nature of vanishing.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.