Great Throughts Treasury

"Beware, "Inertness" makes one go astray."

"Carry the teachings into practice in your everyday life."

"Castles and crowded cities are the places where now you love to stay; but remember that they will fall in ruins after you have departed from this earth. Pride and vainglory are the lure which now you love to follow; But remember, when you are about to die they offer you no shelter."

"Comprehending beyond good and evil opens the way to perfect skill. Experiencing the dissolution of duality, you embrace the highest view."

"Clinging-ego brings wrong views and the yoga fails."

"Compassion always."

"Contemplate for true success."

"Conceptual thoughts are at great awareness."

"Devote yourself to Mantrayanic study and practice."

"Deep words of initiation serve as fetters for those who are not initiated."

"Dharma is the fount of victory. Those who aspire to it are rare."

"Conventional questions and answers lead to confusion."

"Did you know that your kinsmen are your foes? If this be true, surely you should leave them."

"Dharma-practicers, with caution and vigor they will be successful."

"Discard acting blindly."

"Do not confuse serving a Guru with serving a person of good fortune."

"Do not confuse deep intuition with what merely seems to be so."

"Even the dread passions - craving, hatred and blindness - are not so fearful as the state of our future. Why not prepare for yourself provisions?"

"Feigned devotion is for pleasing someone."

"Every living thing shall ripen and be saved."

"For those who do not guard their morals, prayers are but wishful thinking."

"For him who cannot practice Dharma, all his life will be meaningless."

"Gazing nakedly on Essence, the Pure Reality beyond word play, I relax, I let go."

"Give not way to desires for distractions and vain frivolities."

"Future lives may last longer than this life. Do you know how to make provision?"

"Gifted disciples heed with attention the profound, Essential Teaching."

"He who knows the appropriate way to help men of diverse dispositions, can use expedient words for kind and fruitful purposes."

"He who when old neglects the Dharma, should know that he is bound by Karma."

"Hold affection unchangedly for the guru of the Eternal Buddhas."

"How foolish is the thought that it is good to be an animal."

"Guess not when you make predictions."

"Good it is to maintain harmony with one's father by right deeds."

"Have I practiced Dharma with great earnestness?"

"He who knows that all things are his mind, that all with which he meets are friendly, is ever joyful."

"Good men are not prized, but the wicked are."

"Hasten slowly to arrive soon."

"How pitiful are sentient beings in Samsara... How foolish and sad it is to indulge in killing; How sad to commit an act that in the end will hurt oneself; how sad to build a sinful wall of meat, made of one's dying parents' flesh; how sad to see meat eaten and blood flowing!"

"I am a Yogi on the path of Eternal Bliss."

"I feel most sad for those who never heed their future lives, but indulge in evil deeds."

"I have forgotten all artificial usages."

"I have forgotten all creeds and dogma and all definitions."

"I have forgotten all difference between myself and others."

"How toilsome ploughing and digging can become!"

"How sad it is to see blood flowing, and to know that confusions and delusions fill the minds of men."

"I am happy while alive."

"I have forgotten the dread of death."

"I have forgotten all mind-made meditations."

"I have forgotten to think of hope."

"I have forgotten all those who rule by power."

"I have forgotten all distracting thoughts."