"Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing aside."
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"To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river."
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"How long the night to the watchman, How long the road to the weary traveller, How long the wandering of many lives To the fool who misses the way."
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""All is passing". When one realises this, he sits loose to this world of sorrow : This is the way of purity."
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"Love and serve the world through your work."
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"To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear."
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"It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings."
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"The mind that perceives the limitation is the limitation."
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"Do not close your eyes before suffering. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, Including personal contact and visits, images, sound. By such means, awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world."
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"We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end."
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"However young, the seeker who sets out upon the way Shines bright over the world. But day and night the person who is awake Shines in the radiance of the spirit. Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work, with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine!"
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"When a monk is an arahant, with his fermentations ended - one who has reached fulfillment, done the task, laid down the burden, attained the true goal, totally destroyed the fetter of becoming, and is released through right gnosis - the thought doesn't occur to him that 'There is someone better than me,' or 'There is someone equal to me,' or 'There is someone worse than me.'"
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"By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified."
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"Love lasts when the relationship comes first"
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"Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real humanitarianism."
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"But if you miss it, you will next be confronted with the angry deities, ... threatening you and barring your passage ... because you turned a deaf ear to the saving truths of religion. All these forms are strange to you, ... they terrify you, ... and yet it is you who have created them. Do not give in to your fright, ... flee them not! They are but ... the contents of your own mind... If at this point you should manage to understand that, ... and you will find yourself in a paradise among the angels."
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"If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings--this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue."
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"Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone."
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"Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals."
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"In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the difference. Her concern concentrates on one thing just like the Buddhist practice of concentration. She thinks of nothing but her child, which is similar to Buddhist compassion. That must be why, although she created no other causes to bring about it, she was reborn in the Brahma heaven."
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