Ajahn Chah Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Bodhisattva Quotes

Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will suffer, if you are anything at all, you will suffer.

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It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are to be precisely the same, whether he does or does not perform some very laborious duty, it is certainly his interest, at least as interest is vulgarly understood, either to neglect it altogether, or, if he is subject to some authority which will not suffer him to do this, to perform it in as careless and slovenly a manner as that authority will permit.

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Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

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Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering

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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

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Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.

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I believe that the destructive nature of society that now threatens the existence of the entire human world has much to do with human intelligence. The way to overcome all human suffering-that also is through human intelligence.

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Happy the man who can count his sufferings.

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I can't imagine turning into one of those codgers who no longer reads fiction. I'm regularly stirred by it and suffer no anxiety of influence. Influence me! That was my credo then, as I was developing and learning, and remains so now, as I'm developing and learning.

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Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

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To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

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We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.]

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One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Meditation Quotes , Suffering Quotes

Have you thought of the sufferings of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered; now set your strength so that they shall never suffer again.

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Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.

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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

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We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?. . .

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A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

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I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.

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Those who covet much suffer from the want.

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