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

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All living beings have Buddha nature and can become Buddhas.

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Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

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Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.

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Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.

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Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.

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Here will I live in the rainy season, here in the autumn and in the summer: thus muses the fool. He realizes not the danger (of death).

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Wherever a person goes, his deeds, like a shadow, will follow.

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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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A man who will be the public leader, must know how to be the public follower.

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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

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Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.

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Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle.

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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 believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

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Beware of the anger of the body. Master the body. Let it serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mind. Master your thoughts. Let them serve truth.

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Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.

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Let your mind become clear like a still forest pool.

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Stay centered, do not overstretch. Extend from your center, return to your center.

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