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Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

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If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

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

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Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise.

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Like a lovely flower full of color but lacking in fragrance, are the words of those who do not practice what they teach.

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Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up the world.

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

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

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Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.

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To develop genuine devotion, you must know the meaning of teachings. The main emphasis in Buddhism is to transform the mind, and this transformation depends upon meditation. in order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge.

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Because my main concern is the Tibetan Buddhist culture, not just political independence, I cannot seek self-rule for central Tibet and exclude the 4 million Tibetans in our two eastern provinces of Amdo and Kham.

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There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.

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If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then , my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

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There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.

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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

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If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

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Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

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The root of suffering is attachment

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Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.

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