"The body, monks, is not self. If the body were the self, this body would not lend itself to dis-ease. It would be possible (to say) with regard to the body, 'Let my body be thus. Let my body not be th…"

"Beings are owners of their actions, heirs of their actions. They originate from their actions, are bound to their actions, have their actions as their refuge. It is action that distinguishes beings as…"

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."

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

"A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise."