"Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire."
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"There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned. If, monks, there were no unborn... no escape would be discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned. But because there is an unborn..., therefore an escape is discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned."
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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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"Man should make himself a lot of good karma."
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"There are three ways to correct our faults:We can change through behavior We can change through understanding We can change heart"
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"The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness."
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"The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm."
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"There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize nirvana. This is to be mindful."
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"All living beings have Buddha nature and can become Buddhas."
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"Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content."
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"For soon the body is discarded, Then what does it feel? A useless log of wood, it lies on the ground, Then what does it know? Your worst enemy cannot harm you As much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, No one can help you as much, Not even your father or your mother."
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"At the end of the way is freedom. Until then, patience."
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"If people become accustomed to lying, they will unconsciously commit every possible wrong deed. Before they can act wickedly, they must lie and once they begin to lie they will act wickedly without concern."
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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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"You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers."
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"If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior."
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"The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened."
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"There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion."
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"This is deathless: the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging."
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"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt."
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