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Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.
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An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.
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A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
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He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release - the way of such a person is hard to follow, like the path of birds through the sky.
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Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.
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They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.
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One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.
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Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.
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What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.
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Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind.
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Do not breathing in the chronological, do not dream of the later, drain the intellect on the bring about twinkling.
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Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention
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Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.
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To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.
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Freed by full realization and at peace, the mind of such a man is at peace, and his speech and action peaceful. He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.
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Though thousand times a thousand in battle one may conquer, yet should one conquer just oneself, one is the greatest conqueror.
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The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the Truth beats all other joys, and the cessation of desire conquers all suffering.
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There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros.
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If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.
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Do not carry with you your mistakes. Do not carry your cares. Travel on alone. Like an elephant in the forest.
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I know what I gave them; I don't know what they received.
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Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.
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Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
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Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.
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