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(They) were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia.
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You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.
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It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.
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He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One) he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.
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People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who tries to eat a little, honey smeared on the edge of a knife. The amount is by no means sufficient to appease his appetite, but he runs the risk of wounding his tongue.
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Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he loves even a single being, Good will follow. But the Noble One with compassionate heart for all mankind, generates abounding good.
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And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay.
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Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves.
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Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless, be blameless. Awake to the law. And from all sorrows free yourself.
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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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It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes.
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I am a finger pointing to the moon. Don't look at me look at the moon.
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Like a lovely flower full of color but lacking in fragrance, are the words of those who do not practice what they teach.
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I, ever knowing the living beings Who tread the Path and those who do not In response to those who may be saved Preach to them a variety of dharmas, Each time having this thought: 'How may I cause the beings To contrive to enter the Unexcelled Path and quickly to perfect the Buddha-body?'
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Focusnot on the rudeness of others,not on what they've done or left undone,but on what you have done and have not doneyourself.
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If you are tossed about by doubts, full of strong thoughtless passions, and yearning only for that which is detrimental, your thirst will grow stronger and stronger, unquenched, and your pain will grow with your defilements.
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Know what you do not know.
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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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Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth.
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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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