"Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up."
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"A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden."
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"Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water."
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"It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests."
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"Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again"
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"If you don't see God in the next person you meet, look no further."
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"Whatever the hateful do to the hateful, or an enemy to an enemy, worse is the harm of a misguided mind directed at oneself."
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"As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world."
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"A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn."
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"He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk."
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"Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for you to follow."
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"You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together."
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"When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known."
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"It is your mind that creates the world."
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"From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear."
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"I have passed in ignorance through a cycle of many rebirths, seeking the builder of the house. Continuous rebirth is a painful thing. But now, housebuilder, I have found you out. You will not build me a house again. All your rafters are broken, your ridge-pole shattered. My mind is free from active thought, and has made an end of craving."
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"In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock them down, cease to play with them, apply yourself to the destruction of craving for them. Verily, ... the extinction of craving is Nirvana."
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"Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace. Better than a hundred hollow lines Is one line of the dharma, bringing peace. It is better to conquer yourself Than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, Not by angels or by demons, Heaven or hell."
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"Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you."
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"Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth."
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