"Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone."
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"Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings."
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"Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha."
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"To educate people for peace, we can use words or we can speak with our lives."
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"People kill and are killed because they cling too tightly to their own beliefs and ideologies. When we believe that ours is the only faith that contains the truth, violence and suffering will surely be the result."
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"Sometimes we believe that happiness is not possible in the here and now, that we need a few more conditions to be happy. So we run toward the future to get the conditions we think are missing. But by doing so we sacrifice the present moment; we sacrifice true life."
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"Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering."
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"Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind."
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"That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life - they live like dead people."
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"The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity."
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"Loneliness cannot be alleviated just by the coming together of two bodies, unless there is also good communication, understanding, and loving kindness."
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"Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you."
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"The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply."
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"Happiness is not an individual matter."
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"Follow your breathing, dwell mindfully on your steps, and soon you will find your balance."
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"Just listen Be peace."
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"Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?"
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"Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other."
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"Scientists tell us that we have enough technology to save our planet. . . . Yet we don't take advantage of this new technology. . . . The technological has to work hand-in-hand with the spiritual. Our spiritual life is the element that can bring about the energies of peace, calm, brotherhood, understanding, and compassion. Without that, our planet doesn't stand a chance."
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"To condemn someone to death is to surrender; it proves that you failed. You are not able to change him, to change her; you have to kill him or her. You surrender. ... You only demonstrate your lack of capacity, your helplessness. This is failure."
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