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It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.

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Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the Discipline. If they are neither traceable in the Discourses nor verifiable by the Discipline, one must conclude thus: 'Certainly, this is not the Blessed One's utterance; this has been misunderstood by that bhikkhu - or by that community, or by those elders, or by that elder.' In that way, bhikkhus, you should reject it.

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Dispassion is the best of mental states. . . .

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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

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The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next

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If there is only empty space, with no suns nor planets in it, then space loses its substantiality.

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Let us live in joy, never falling sick like those who hate us. Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among those who hate.

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Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people will not see me.

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Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.

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Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.

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There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don't know.

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If people become accustomed to lying, they will unconsciously commit every possible wrong deed. Before they can act wickedly, they must lie and once they begin to lie they will act wickedly without concern.

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The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the Truth beats all other joys, and the cessation of desire conquers all suffering

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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 a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.

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People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who tries to eat a little, honey smeared on the edge of a knife. The amount is by no means sufficient to appease his appetite, but he runs the risk of wounding his tongue.

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Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled.

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A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.

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Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course.

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Embrace nothing: If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha. If you meet your father, kill your father. Only live your life as it is, Not bound to anything.

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