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We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis.

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Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!

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By your own efforts waken yourself, watch yourself. And live joyfully.

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When a monk is an arahant, with his fermentations ended - one who has reached fulfillment, done the task, laid down the burden, attained the true goal, totally destroyed the fetter of becoming, and is released through right gnosis - the thought doesn't occur to him that 'There is someone better than me,' or 'There is someone equal to me,' or 'There is someone worse than me.'

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A brahmin once asked The Blessed One: "Are you a God?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a saint?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a magician?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "What are you then?" "I am awake."

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Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

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Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck.

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Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.

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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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His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.

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There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river.

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All have I overcome, all do I know. From all am I detached. All have I renounced. Wholly absorbed am I in ``the destruction of craving. Having comprehended all by myself, whom shall I call my teacher.

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The Ill-directed mind can do to you even worse

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He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release - the way of such a person is hard to follow, like the path of birds through the sky.

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Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

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The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.

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All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

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

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

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