If you meditate earnestly, pure in mind and kind in deeds, leading a disciplined life in harmony with the dharma, you will grow in glory. If you meditate earnestly, through spiritual disciplines you can make an island for yourself that no flood can overwhelm.
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If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current — how can he help others across?
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Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
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With mindfulness, strive on.
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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
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He who sits alone, sleeps alone, and walks alone, who is strenuous and subdues himself alone, will find delight in the solitude of the forest.
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If you meditate earnestly, pure in mind and kind in deeds, leading a disciplined life in harmony with the dharma, you will grow in glory. If you meditate earnestly, through spiritual disciplines you can make an island for yourself that no flood can overwhelm.
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Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
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True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.
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Don’t run after pleasure and neglect the practice of meditation. If you forget the goal of life and get caught in the pleasures of the world, you will come to envy those who put meditation first.
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May all beings have happy minds.
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Conquer anger through gentleness, unkindness through kindness, greed through generosity, and falsehood by truth.
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You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
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Let all-embracing thoughts for all beings be yours.
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Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity.
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He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake’s venom that so quickly spreads — such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.
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Nothing remains without change.
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Meditate. Do not delay, lest you later regret it.
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Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
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Train your eyes and ears; train your nose and tongue. The senses are good friends when they are trained. Train your body in deeds, train your tongue in words, train your mind in thoughts. This training will take you beyond sorrow.
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