"All living beings have Buddha nature and can become Buddhas."
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"The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper."
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"The worlds originate so that truth may come and dwell therein."
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"The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions"
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"To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing."
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"We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis."
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"For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat."
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"From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?"
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"Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth."
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"There are these two kinds of gifts: a gift of material things & a gift of the Dhamma. Of the two, this is supreme: a gift of the Dhamma."
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"If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater."
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"If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs,follow that wise man ; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him."
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"They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma. Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination."
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"Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion."
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"Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace."
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"Love is a gift of one's inner most soul to another so both can be whole."
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"Born out of concern for all beings."
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"May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to be afraid, and may those bound be free. May the powerless find power, and may people think of befriending each other. May those who find themselves in trackless, fearful wilderness- the children, the aged, the unprotected- be guarded by beneficent celestials, and may they swiftly attain Buddhahood."
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"Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you to Nirvana."
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"Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream"
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