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Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

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You are the source of all purity and impurity. No one purifies another.

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As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.

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The Ill-directed mind can do to you even worse

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It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is possible.

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It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. This is a helpful pointer for our everyday presence-practice. Can you catch yourself angrily defending your point of view or attacking the other person's? There's the ego.

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All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.

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Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising of the noble eightfold path.

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Your actions are your only true belongings.

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The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.

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Let us live in joy, never falling sick like those who hate us. Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among those who hate.

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In what is seen, there should be just the seen; In what is heard, there should be just the heard; In what is sensed, there should be just the sensed; In what is thought, there should be just the thought. He should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should he incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak in the world.

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If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily.

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Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow.

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Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear

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You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it.

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Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.

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Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

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Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men, embracing erroneous views, enter the woeful path.

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