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"Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this."
"Our problems are not solved by physical force, by hatred, by warOur problems are solved by loving kindness by gentleness, by joy"
"If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily."
"Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular."
"May everyone be happy and safe, and may their hearts be filled with joy."
"I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake on Earth as a drop of oil on my foot."
"For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say, an island exists where there is no place for impediments, no place for clinging: the island of no going beyond. I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying."
"Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn, unageing, und."
"One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried treasure. To one who follows such a wise man, it will be an advantage and not a disadvantage."
"As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives."
"Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet."
"To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck."
"Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher."
"Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised."
"One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble."
"Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings...that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."
"There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future."
"So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, 'This contemplative is our teacher.' When you know for yourselves that, 'These qualities are unskillful; these qualities are blameworthy; these qualities are criticized by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to harm & to suffering' - then you should abandon them."
"A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others."
"If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out."