Be quick to do meritorious deeds involving generosity, virtue, and meditation! Restrain your mind from evil! When one is slow to make merit one’s mind delights in evil.
—The Buddha, Dhammapada 116
He who has passed beyond the troublesome road of defilements, this difficult path, this journey of rebirths, this delusion; who has crossed over and reached the other shore; who is a meditator, free from craving, free from doubt, and clinging to nothing; and who has become cooled—him do I call a Brāhmin.
—The Buddha, Dhammapada 414
If one sees the world as a water bubble that is subject to destruction, and as a mirage that will soon disappear, one will not be seen by Māra.
—The Buddha, Dhammapada 170
He who, having given up craving for sense pleasures here, has renounced the household life, has become a monk or a nun, and has destroyed craving and repeated existence—him do I call a Brāhmin.
—The Buddha, Dhammapada 416