Ajahn Chah Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Bodhisattva Quotes

Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will suffer, if you are anything at all, you will suffer.

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Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

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Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.

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A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix itself with anything, nor admit of dirtiness or pollution, but remains entirely, and in all things that are, free from defilement, admixture, and suffering.

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When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you look upon the lost like one that stands on a mountain sees those that stand upon the plain.

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We don't meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.

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And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

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I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

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Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.

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Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.

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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

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To a large extent, whether you suffer depends on how you respond to a given situation.

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When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.

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All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

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The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous death occurring by 'accident' in the midst of prosperity would not suffice for it. It is, in fact, essentially a tale of suffering and calamity conducting to death.

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Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul

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If others are happy, we will be happy. If others suffer, ultimately we all suffer.

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If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

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When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.

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