Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.

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Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course.

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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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Life is suffering.

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One who acts on truth is happy in this world and beyond.

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One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand men on the battlefield. Be victorious over yourself and not over others.

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True love is born from understanding.

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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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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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When you attain victory over yourself, not even the gods can turn it into defeat.

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Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course.

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One who acts on truth is happy in this world and beyond.

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

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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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Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.

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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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A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated — this is the greatest blessing.

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

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If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow.

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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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Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity. Conquer dishonesty with truth.

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To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

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Delight in heedfulness! Guard well your thoughts!

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It is better to do nothing, than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself.

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We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

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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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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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Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

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What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.

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There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires.

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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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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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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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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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Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.

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Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

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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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What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.

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If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone.

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