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Death and dying provide a meeting-point between the Tibetan Buddhist and modern scientific traditions. I believe both have a great deal to contribute to each other on the level of understanding and of practical benefit.

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The discipline which I have imparted to you will lead you when I am gone. Practice mindfulness diligently, to attain the goal of awakening.

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May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.

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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

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The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.

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Don't become a Buddhist. The world doesn't need Buddhist. Do practice Compassion. The world needs more compassion.

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Freedom is the real source of human happiness and creativity. Irrespective of whether you are a believer or nonbeliever, whether Buddhist, Christian, or Jew, the important thing is to be a good human being.

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Giving up attachment to the world does not mean that you set yourself apart from it. Generating a desire for others to be happy increases your humanity. As you become less attached to the world, you become more humane. As the very purpose of spiritual practice is to help others, you must remain in society.

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Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.

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Continue this practice no matter what happens or what anyone does to you.

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Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.

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You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.

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You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love.

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When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace.

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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

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In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

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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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There are these two kinds of gifts: a gift of material things & a gift of the Dhamma. Of the two, this is supreme: a gift of the Dhamma.

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Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning and end. What if I searched for that which underlies all creation, that which is nirvana, the perfect freedom from unconditioned existence?

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