Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
Not knowing the consequence of good and evil karmas, he is afflicted and hurt. Nevertheless, he, due to his egotism, piles up karmas and undergoes births and deaths again and again.
Whether you’re a gem in the royal court or a stone on the common path, if you accept your part with humility the glory of the universe will be yours.
If you eat with love that is good; what you just gulp down like anything, that will kill you.
That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
