Occupation: Poet Birth: 1052 Death: 1135
Do not entertain hopes for realization, but practice all your life..
My religion is to live and die without regret..
Take the lowest place, and you shall reach the highest..
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….
Mental activity in the daytime creates a latent form of habitual thought which again transforms itself at night into various delusory visions sensed ….
One should see that all appearance is like mist and fog..
He who knows that all things are his mind, That all with which he meets are friendly, Is ever joyful..
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….
You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves..
Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others.
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….
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….
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….
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….