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I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate, independent of words and transmitted beyond doctrine. This I have entrusted to Mahakashyapa.

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Through one all are known, through one all are also seen

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When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known.

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There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.

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To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.

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Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive. Wonder of wonders.

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With our thoughts we make the world.

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Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

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From a withered tree, a flower blooms

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Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.

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Your worst enemy is your best teacher.

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As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet.

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If you don't disturb yourself, like a broken gong does not vibrate, then you have achieved nirvana. Irritability no longer exists for you.

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Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course.

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A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world.

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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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As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.

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If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.

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When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.

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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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