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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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May all sentient beings be happy and free of suffering.

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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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There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.

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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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Wherever you live is your temple, if you treat it like one.

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It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

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Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. - Buddha No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

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One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment.

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A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat.

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This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?

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Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.

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Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.

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The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.

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After 48 years, I have said nothing.

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"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.

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He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.

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Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

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Don't believe a teaching just because you've heard it from a man who's supposed to be holy, or because it's contained in a book supposed to be holy, or because all your friends and neighbors believe it. But whatever you've observed and analyzed for yourself and found to be reasonable and good, then accept that and put it into practice.

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