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When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment he needs help. That's the message he is sending.
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I vow to live fully in each moment.
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When you drop bombs on the enemy, you drop those same bombs on yourself, your own country.
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In us, there is a river of feelings, in which every drop of water is a different feeling, and each feeling relies on all the others for its existence. To observe it, we just sit on the bank of the river and identify each feeling as it surfaces, flows by, and disappears.
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When we eat mindfully, we consume exactly what we need to keep our bodies, our minds, and the Earth healthy. When we practice like this, we reduce suffering for ourselves and for others.
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May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.
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In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming.
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It is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of practice
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Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.
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The buddha called suffering a holy truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your suffering and let it reveal to you the way to peace.
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A human being is like a television set with millions of channels.... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty.
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One Buddha is not enough we need to have many Buddhas.
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You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.
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The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.
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In Buddhism, mindfulness is the key. Mindfulness is the energy that sheds light on all things and all activities, producing the power of concentration, bringing forth deep insight and awakening. Mindfulness is the base of Buddhist practice
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