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If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.

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Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.

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There are three things that cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.

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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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Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.

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Those who are pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme Way. It is like polishing a mirror, which becomes bright when the dust is removed. Remove your passions, and have no hankering.

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The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.

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Doubt everything. Find your own light.

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The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, only you're the one who gets burned.

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In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock them down, cease to play with them, apply yourself to the destruction of craving for them. Verily, ... the extinction of craving is Nirvana.

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With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.

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By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we acquire great treasures.

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Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.

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Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.

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It is within this fathoms-long carcass, with its mind and its notions, that I declare there is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world and the path leading to the cessation of the world.

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If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

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What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

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One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should think it was my doing. They should accept my authority in all matters great or small." This is a fool's way of thinking. His self-seeking and conceit just increase.

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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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When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish to follow the Way, make your own hearts clean from the dirt of evil passion, and your conduct will be unimpeachable.

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