Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.
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Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.
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Whatever has the nature of arising has the nature of ceasing.
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As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
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It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see one’s own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one’s own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.
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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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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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The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.
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‘All conditioned things are impermanent’ — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.
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Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.
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Whatever living beings there may be — feeble or strong, long, stout, or of medium size, short, small, large, those seen or those unseen, those dwelling far or near, those who are born as well as those yet to be born — may all beings have happy minds.
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Your own self is your master; who else could be? With yourself well controlled, you gain a master very hard to find.
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It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
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Pain is certain; suffering is optional.
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All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.
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May all beings have happy minds.
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Nothing remains without change.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Good people keep on walking whatever happens. They do not speak vain words and are the same in good fortune and bad. If one desires neither children nor wealth nor power nor success by unfair means, know such a one to be good, wise, and virtuous.
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Your own self is your master; who else could be? With yourself well controlled, you gain a master very hard to find.
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