As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
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Siddhartha
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Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.
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Whatever has the nature of arising has the nature of ceasing.
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Don’t run after pleasure and neglect the practice of meditation. If you forget the goal of life and get caught in the pleasures of the world, you will come to envy those who put meditation first.
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It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.
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Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.
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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
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As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.
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‘All conditioned things are impermanent’ — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.
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Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance.
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May all beings have happy minds.
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If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.
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Our life is shaped by our mind. We become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.
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Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another.
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Health is the best gift, contentment the best wealth, trust the best kinsman, nirvana the greatest joy. Drink the nectar of the dharma in the depths of meditation, and become free from fear and sin.
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One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.
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To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation — this is the greatest blessing.
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If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
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To be angry is to let others' mistakes punish yourself.
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To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.
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