You are like the yellow leaf. The messengers of death are at hand. You are to travel far away. What will you take with you?
By watching Indra became king of the Gods. How wonderful it is to watch, how foolish to sleep.
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
The fool laughs at generosity. The miser cannot enter heaven.
The master finds joy in giving, where happiness is the reward.
Purged of all impurities of attachment, aversion and confusion, the Buddha is worthy of oblations, offerings, respect and homage.
A virtuous donor offers to one without virtues.
A person who's wise, out of regard for their own good, should always show due respect.
Become highly perfect. Thoroughly come to the end of the yoke and the end of the holy life.
The monk learns that all things are not suitable to settle in.
Not seizing does not worry. Not worried is internally extinguished. Birth is destroyed.
Seeing impermanence, detachment, cessation and giving up the pleasant and the unpleasent, one does not seize upon anything in the world.
Remain with the Dharma as an island and the Dharma as your refuge.
The rightfully enlightened one has realized the whole world, the door is open to deathlessness, to attain appeasement and extinction.
The one who knows has declared this world and the other world, what could be attained by death and what could not be attained by death.
The holy life plunges into freedom, culminates in freedom, has freedom as its final end.
Virtue, concentration, and discernment are not included in the eightfold path. The eightfold path is included within them.
Only when one has emerged from the cessation of perception and feeling is there awareness of the emptiness, the signless, and the wishless.
When one is attaining the cessation of perception and feeling ― verbal fabrications cease first, then bodily fabrications, then mental ones.