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Our visit to this planet is short, so we should use our time meaningfully, which we can do by helping others wherever possible. And if we cannot help others, at least we should try not to create pain and suffering for them.

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Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.

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

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Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

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Live contemplating the body. Contemplate internally and externally. Contemplate the origination of things in the body. Contemplate the dissolution of things in the body.

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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.

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Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.

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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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My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.

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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

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In spiritual growth, it is important to avoid imbalances between academic or intellectual learning and practical implementation. Otherwise there is a danger that too much intellectualiza tion will kill the more contemplative practices and too much emphasis on practical implementation without study will kill the understanding. There has got to be a balance.

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

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Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does not put them into practice.

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Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions.

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Let the disciple cultivate love without measure towards all beings. Let him cultivate towards the whole world, above, below, around, a heart of love unstinted....For in all the world this state of heart is best.

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

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A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.

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In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the difference. Her concern concentrates on one thing just like the Buddhist practice of concentration. She thinks of nothing but her child, which is similar to Buddhist compassion. That must be why, although she created no other causes to bring about it, she was reborn in the Brahma heaven.

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Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

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