Occupation: Poet Birth: 1052 Death: 1135
I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing..
I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions, the….
One should see that all appearance is like mist and fog..
All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings….
Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive..
In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the fortress of the deat….
Deep in the wild mountains, is a strange marketplace,where you can trade the hassle and noise of everyday life, for eternal Light..
Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, ….
All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others..
In harvesting of evil deeds, the human race is busy; and doing so is to taste the pangs of Hell . . . The piling up of wealth is the piling up of oth….
In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite..
In the gap between thoughts nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously..
The affairs of the world will go on forever, do not delay the practice of meditation. Once you have met with the profound instructions from a medit….
Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others.
He who knows that all things are his mind, That all with which he meets are friendly, Is ever joyful..
Mental activity in the daytime creates a latent form of habitual thought which again transforms itself at night into various delusory visions sensed ….
To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind..
When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, ra….
If one stays too long with friends They will soon tire of him; Living in such closeness leads to dislike and hate. It is but human to expect and dema….
You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves..
Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like th….