"Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached."
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"These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states of mind generated by these teachings, How much more so should you abandon bad states of mind!"
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"Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow."
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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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"As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds."
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"Do not be thoughtless, always be mindful, watch your thoughts! Draw yourself out of the path of evil, like an elephant sunk in mud."
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"Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy."
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"Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect"
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"Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee."
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"When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself."
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"Those who speak much are blamed, those who speak little are blamed. In this world there are none who are not blamed. Try not to blame."
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"Fill your mind with compassion."
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"Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant."
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"It is our minds that create this world."
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"Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup."
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"Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stifled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal."
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"For one who is a learner and who has not yet come to master their mind, but who dwells aspiring for peace from that which binds, making it a matter concerning himself, I know of no other thing as helpful as giving close attention to the mind."
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"If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?"
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"But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus."
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"Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law."
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