Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except yourself.
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As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.
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The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.
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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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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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Everything that happens to us is the result of what we ourselves have thought, said, or done. We alone are responsible for our lives.
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To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation — this is the greatest blessing.
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Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
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We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis…
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Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
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Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is Awakened.
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Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.
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Not by rituals and resolutions, nor by much learning, nor by celibacy, nor even by meditation can you find the supreme, immortal joy of nirvana until you extinguish your self-will.
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The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men.
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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
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Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.
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All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.
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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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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
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