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Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.

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Live in joy and love even among those who hate; live in joy and peace even among the troubled.

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If there is a God, it is inconceivable that he would be concerned about my day to day affairs.

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If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.

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The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.

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And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.

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The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.

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The discipline which I have imparted to you will lead you when I am gone. Practice mindfulness diligently, to attain the goal of awakening.

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When an evil-doer, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maliciously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him, for the evil-doer is insulting himself by trying to insult you.

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Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.

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I look upon the judgment of right and wrong as the serpentine dance of a dragon, and the rise and fall of beliefs as but traces left by the four seasons.

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You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.

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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

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How long the night to the watchman, How long the road to the weary traveller, How long the wandering of many lives To the fool who misses the way.

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The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.

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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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Radiate boundless love towards the entire world - above, below, and across - unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.

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Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.

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As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world

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But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.

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