Philosophical Sayings

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself.

If the problem can be solved, why worry? If the problem cannot be solved, worrying will do you no good.

Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun, and the Truth.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

A jug fills drop by drop.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

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

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.