The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

If you desire ease, forsake learning.

So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one’s own efforts.

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

Just as it is knownThat an image of one’s face is seenDepending on a mirrorBut does not really exist as a face,So the conception of “I” existsDependent on mind and body,But like the image of...

The victorious ones have saidThat emptiness is the relinquishing of all views.For whomever emptiness is a view,That one has achieved nothing.