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An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is shelter. Whoever follows impure thoughts Suffers in this world and the next. In both worlds he suffers And how greatly.
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No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.
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Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape from the results of evil deeds.
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Being generous and kindly in speech, doing a good turn for others, and treating all alike. One like this will be praised.
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If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.
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He who is kind to animals heaven will protect.
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The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.
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Apply yourself to solitude. One who is given to solitude knows things as they really are.
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One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . . .
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The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old.
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There are those who discover they can leave behind destructive reactions and become patient as the earth, unmoved by fires of anger or fear, unshaken as a pillar, unperturbed as a clear and quiet pool.
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Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he loves even a single being, Good will follow. But the Noble One with compassionate heart for all mankind, generates abounding good.
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How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own. You winnow his in the wind like chaff, But yours you hide, Like a cheat covering up an unlucky throw. Dwelling on your brother's faults Multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love.
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Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.Without reactions the world becomes clear.
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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
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You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death.
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Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine. Believe it only because you yourself know it to be true.
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Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.
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Live contemplating the body. Contemplate internally and externally. Contemplate the origination of things in the body. Contemplate the dissolution of things in the body.
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The mind contains all possibilities.
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One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.
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Those who attempt to conquer hatred by hatred are like warriors who take weapons to overcome others who bear arms. This does not end hatred, but gives it room to grow. But, ancient wisdom has advocated a different timeless strategy to overcome hatred. This eternal wisdom is to meet hatred with non-hatred. The method of trying to conquer hatred through hatred never succeeds in overcoming hatred. But, the method of overcoming hatred through non-hatred is eternally effective. That is why that method is described as eternal wisdom.
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Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless, be blameless. Awake to the law. And from all sorrows free yourself.
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Stay centered, do not overstretch. Extend from your center, return to your center.
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