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Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.

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The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.

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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 be thoughtless, always be mindful, watch your thoughts! Draw yourself out of the path of evil, like an elephant sunk in mud.

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How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own.

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The hunger of passions is the greatest disease.

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

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Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.

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If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

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Being able to make friends and keep them, welcoming others and sharing with them, a guide, philosopher and friend. One like this will be praised.

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When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

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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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A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

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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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I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.

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When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.

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Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others

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He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release - the way of such a person is hard to follow, like the path of birds through the sky.

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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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'I've got children', 'I've got wealth.' This is the way a fool brings suffering on himself. He does not even own himself, so how can he have children or wealth?

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