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Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

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To combat hatred directed toward a person, a Buddhist cultivates loving kindness toward that person.

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By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified.

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Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

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Joyful is the accumulation of good work.

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Spend 5 minutes at the beginning of each day remembering we all want the same things (to be happy and be loved) and we are all connected to one another.

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In Aryans' Discipline, to build a friendship is to build wealth, To maintain a friendship is to maintain wealth and To end a friendship is to end wealth.

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Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

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The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false.

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All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

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Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non-virtuous things. Once you have discovered for yourself give up the bad and embrace the good.

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Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs,follow that wise man ; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him.

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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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Do not accept what you hear by report, do not accept tradition, do not accept a statement because it is found in our books, nor because it is in accord with your belief, nor because it is the saying of your teacher. Be lamps unto yourselves. Those who, either now or after I am dead, shall rely upon themselves only and not look for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who shall reach the topmost height.

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Within this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained.

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Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.

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I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.

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Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.

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For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.

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