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How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath.

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Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

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One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should think it was my doing. They should accept my authority in all matters great or small." This is a fool's way of thinking. His self-seeking and conceit just increase.

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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.

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If you want to be wisely selfish, care for others

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Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor.

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Where is fate and who is fate? We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none else has the praise. We make our own destiny. The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian. Each must assimilate the spirit of other religion and yet preserve his individuality and follow his own law of growth.

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A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

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Although you can find certain differences among the Buddhist philosophical schools about how the universe came into being, the basic common question addressed is how the two fundamental principles-external matter and internal mind or consciousness-although distinct, affect one another. External causes and conditions are responsible for certain of our experiences of happiness and suffering. Yet we find that it is principally our own feelings, our thoughts and our emotions, that really determine whether we are going to suffer or be happy.

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One who previously made bad karma, but who reforms and creates good karma, brightens the world like the moon appearing from behind a cloud.

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Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.

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I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

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The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions

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Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister. No matter how new the face or how different the dress and behavior, there is no significant division between us and other people. It is foolish to dwell on external differences, because our basic natures are the same.

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Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.

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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

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After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.

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An evil deed, like fresh milk, does not go bad suddenly. Smouldering, like fire covered by ashes, the evil deed follows the fool.

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Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.

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Being generous and kindly in speech, doing a good turn for others, and treating all alike. One like this will be praised.

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