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Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

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All living beings have Buddha nature and can become Buddhas.

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Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.

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The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.

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No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.

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Though thousand times a thousand in battle one may conquer, yet should one conquer just oneself, one is the greatest conqueror.

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Live happily, not hating even those who are hostile. Live peacefully even amongst those that hate.

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Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course.

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When an evil-doer, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maliciously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him, for the evil-doer is insulting himself by trying to insult you.

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True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.

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If you can keep as silent as a broken gong, then you have attained, when you know no anger.

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When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.

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Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.

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Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do.

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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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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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If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear.

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Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you."

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The trouble is you think you have time.

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But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest.

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