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And so, with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings.

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When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.

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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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My teaching is not a philosophy. It is the result of direct experience... My teaching is a means of practice, not something to hold onto or worship. My teaching is like a raft used to cross the river. Only a fool would carry the raft around after he had already reached the other shore of liberation.

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Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me.

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Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

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We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

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A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

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This is the entire spiritual life, Ananda, that is, good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship. When a monk has a good friend, a good companion, a good comrade, it is to be expected that he will develop and cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path.

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With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart: above, below, and all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate.

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"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

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Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame and glory. But when they have acquired it, they are already stricken in years. If you hanker after worldly fame and practise not the Way, your labors are wrongfully applied and your energy is wasted. It is like unto burning an incense stick. However much its pleasing odor be admired, the fire that consumes is steadily burning up the stick.

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After enlightenment, the laundry.

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

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From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?

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Born out of concern for all beings.

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The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, only you're the one who gets burned.

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If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe.

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Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

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Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

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