What was not thought of may come to be; what was thought of may come to nothing; the wealth of a woman or a man is never won merely by wishing.
ขุ. ชา. มหา. ๒๘/๑๖๗.
When one does not delight in feelings, internal or external, and lives mindfully in this way, consciousness ceases.
ขุ. สุ. ๒๕/๕๔๗. ขุ. จู. ๓๐/๒๑๘.
A monk should still the defilements and evil states within himself, and not seek peace from elsewhere; for one who has stilled what is within, there is nothing new to grasp — whence then anything grasped that must be let go?
ขุ. สุ. ๒๕/๕๑๔. ขุ. มหา. ๒๙/๔๒๕,๔๒๖.
Sensual pleasures give little enjoyment and much suffering; there is no suffering greater than sensual pleasure; whoever indulges in sensual pleasures goes to hell.
ขุ. ชา เอกาทสก. ๒๗/๓๑๕.
One who is harmless (to others) and speaks the truth in this way, having passed from this world to another, does not grieve.
ขุ. ชา. มหา. ๒๘/๓๓๒.
A lazy householder who enjoys sensual pleasures is not good; an unrestrained monk is not good; a king who acts without consideration is not good; a wise man who is quick to anger is not good.
ขุ. ชา. วีส. ๒๗/๔๔๖.
Those who take the unessential to be essential and see the essential as unessential, dwelling in the pasture of wrong intentions, do not arrive at the essential.
ขุ. ธ. ๒๕/๑๖.
One who does not grieve over the past nor yearn for the future, but lives by what is present — his complexion is serene.
สํ. ส. ๑๕/๗.
One whose mind is unsteady, who is light-minded, who betrays friends and is ever fickle in conduct, has no happiness.
ขุ. ชา. จตุกฺก. ๒๗/๑๔๒.
Whoever is a womanizer, a drunkard and a gambler squanders whatever he gains; that is a cause of his ruin.
สุ. ขุ. ๒๕/๓๔๗.
Women are a stain upon the holy life; these people are attached to women; austerity and the holy life are the bath, not water.
สํ. ส. ๑๕/๕๒.
This short life is led on by old age; when a being is led on by old age there is no protection; seeing this danger in death, one who aims at peace should abandon worldly bait.
สํ. ส. ๑๕/๗๗.
One who is peaceful, abstains from evil, speaks skilfully and is not agitated blows away evil states as the wind blows away the leaves.
ขุ. เถร. ๒๖/๒๖๐.
If beings understood ‘this birth and coming-to-be is suffering’, a being would not kill a being; for one who kills beings grieves.
ขุ. ชา. เอก. ๒๗/๖.
A monk should not be attached to sensual pleasures; his mind should be unclouded; he should be skilled in all things and mindful in every posture.
ขุ. สุ. ๒๕/๕๓๑. ขุ. จู. ๓๐/๒๖.
Having seen the noble truths, uprooted the craving that leads to existence and cut off the root of suffering, one has no further becoming.
ที. มหา. ๑๐/๑๐๗.
Whatever deed a person does by giving, by even conduct, by restraint and by self-taming — because of that deed he is happy, and it does not burn him afterwards.
ขุ. ชา. ปกิณฺณก. ๒๗/๓๙๘.
Whoever is given to sleep, given to talk, not diligent, lazy and hot-tempered — that is a cause of his ruin.
ขุ. สุ. ๒๕/๓๔๖.
The banner is the mark of a chariot, smoke is the mark of a fire, the king is the mark of a realm, and the husband is the mark of a woman.
ขุ. ชา. มหา. ๒๘/๓๘๖.
A monk who delights and rejoices in the Dhamma, reflects on the Dhamma and recollects the Dhamma again and again does not fall away from the true Dhamma.
ขุ. ธ. ๒๕/๖๕.
There is no such thing in the world as a secret place for the evil-doer; people see a forest, but the fool takes that place to be secret.
ขุ. ชา. จตุกฺก. ๒๗/๑๓๑.
In this world there is no self-taming for one who loves conceit; there is no knowledge for one of unsteady mind; the heedless one, though he dwell alone in the forest, cannot cross the realm of Death.
สํ. ส. ๑๕/๖.
One should not listen to the harsh words of others, nor look at what others have done and left undone; one should look only at what one has oneself done and left undone.
ขุ. ธ. ๒๕/๒๑.
Seeing heedlessness as a danger and heedfulness as safety, one should develop the Eightfold Path — this is the Buddha’s instruction.
ขุ. จริยา. ๓๓/๕๙๕.
Not seeing what is dear is suffering, and seeing what is not dear is also suffering; therefore one should not hold anything dear, for separation from the dear is painful.
ขุ. ธ. ๒๕/๔๓.
The world, struck down by Death and hemmed in by old age, with no one to protect it, is ever in torment, like a convict who must submit to punishment.
ขุ. เถร. ๒๖/๓๓๕.
Whatever a person gets, he is not content with it; whatever he longs for, he despises what he has got; because wants have no end, let us pay homage to those who are free from wants.
ขุ. ชา. ทุก. ๒๗/๙๔.
Just as, when the parts are assembled, the word ‘chariot’ comes into use, so, when the aggregates are present, the convention ‘a being’ comes into use.
สํ. ส. ๑๕/๑๙๘. ขุ. มหา. ๒๙/๕๓๖.
Just as a tree, though cut down, grows again while its root is firm and unharmed, so this suffering arises again and again while the underlying tendency to craving is not removed.
ขุ. ธ. ๒๕/๖๐.
One who has cast off lust, hatred and ignorance is said to have crossed this ocean with its monsters, its demons, its danger of waves — so hard to cross.
สํ. สฬ. ๑๘/๑๙๗.
In whom there are no sensual desires, in whom there is no craving, and who has crossed over doubt — for him there is a liberation that changes not into anything else.
ขุ. สุ. ๒๕/๕๔๓. ขุ. จู. ๓๐/๑๗๐.
Whoever suffers because of what is born of sensual pleasure — how could he incline (his mind) towards sensual pleasure? Knowing the substrates to be the entanglement in the world, one should train to remove them.
สํ. ส. ๑๕/๑๗๐.
Whoever overcomes that base craving so hard to overcome in the world — sorrows fall away from him like drops of water from a lotus leaf.
ขุ. ธ. ๒๕/๖๐.
Not greedy, not attached to tastes, supporting no one, going for alms from house to house in order, with a mind unattached to families, one should wander alone like a rhinoceros horn.
ขุ. สุ. ๒๕/๓๓๗. ขุ. จู. ๓๐/๔๐๖.
The sage who lives as one who has nothing, unattached to sensual pleasures, who has crossed the flood, is loved even by people who are still attached to sensual pleasures.
ขุ. สุ. ๒๕/๔๙๔.
Whoever has mastered the knowledge in this world and abandoned attachment to existence great and small — he is free from craving, free from suffering, free from longing; I declare that he has crossed beyond birth and old age.
ขุ. สุ. ๒๕/๕๓๖. ขุ. จู. ๓๐/๑๐๔,๑๐๗
One should train in seclusion, which is the highest quality of the noble ones; whoever does not think himself superior because of that seclusion is said to practise close to Nibbāna.
ขุ. สุ. ๒๕/๔๙๔. ขุ. มหา. ๒๙/๑๙๑.
One should suspect the danger that ought to be suspected and guard against the danger that has not yet come; the wise one looks at both worlds through fear of the future.
ขุ. ชา. จตุกฺก. ๒๗/๑๓๖.
Having fully understood perception, one may cross the flood; a sage unattached to possessions, having drawn out the arrow, wandering heedful, is said to long for neither this world nor the next.
ขุ. สุ. ๒๕/๔๘๖. ขุ. มหา. ๒๙/๗๑.
When one is liberated through right knowledge, peaceful and steady, one’s mind is at peace, and one’s speech and action are at peace.
ขุ. ธ. ๒๕/๒๘.
Not doing any evil, bringing the wholesome to fulfilment, and purifying one’s own mind — these three are the instruction of the Enlightened Ones.
ขุ. ธ. ๒๕/๓๙.
A good king is one who delights in the Dhamma; a good person is one with wisdom; a good friend is one who does not betray friends; happiness lies in not doing evil.
ขุ. ชา. ปญฺญาส. ๒๘/๒๐.