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The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.

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At the end of the way is freedom. Until then, patience.

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The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.

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Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not.

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There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.

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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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One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.

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There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned. If, monks, there were no unborn... no escape would be discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned. But because there is an unborn..., therefore an escape is discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned.

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The darkest night is ignorance.

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind. If a man speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering will follow him as the wheel of the cart follows the beast that draws the cart. If a man speaks or acts with a pure mind, joy follows him as his own shadow.

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To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.

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

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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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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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Do not be thoughtless, always be mindful, watch your thoughts! Draw yourself out of the path of evil, like an elephant sunk in mud.

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I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all are eliminated no desire arises.

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For he that is delighted by concord, And who abideth in the Law, Falleth not from Security.

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More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.

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If you find someone with wisdom, good judgment, and good actions; make him a companion.

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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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