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Impermanence and Dhamma: Contemplating the Buddhist Teachings on Mortality
“What laughter, why joy,when constantly aflame?Enveloped in darkness,don’t you look for a lamp? Look at the beautified image,a heap of festering wounds, shored up:ill, but the objectof many resolves,where there is nothinglasting or sure. Worn out is this body,a nest of diseases, dissolving.This putrid conglomerationis bound to break up,for life is hemmed in with death.…
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Buddha’s Teachings on Non-violence and Self-discipline
“Alltremble at the rod,allare fearful of death.Drawing the parallel toyourself,neither kill nor get others to kill. Alltremble at the rod,allhold their life dear.Drawing the parallel toyourself,neither kill nor get others to kill. Whoever takes a rodto harm living beings desiring ease,when he himself is looking for ease,meets with no ease after death. Whoever doesn’t take…
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Consequences of Actions: Evil, Merit, and Fortune
“Be quick in doingwhat’s admirable.Restrain your mindfrom what’s evil.When you’re slowin making merit,evil delights the mind. If a person does evil,he shouldn’t do it again & again,shouldn’t develop a penchant for it.To accumulate evilbrings pain.If a person makes merit,he should do it again & again,should develop a penchant for it.To accumulate meritbrings ease. Even the…
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The Profound Wisdom of Buddhist Teachings: A Timeless Guide to Inner Peace and Self-Mastery
“Better than if there were thousandsof meaningless words isonemeaningfulwordthat on hearingbrings peace. Better than if there were thousandsof meaningless verses isonemeaningfulline of versethat on hearingbrings peace. And better than chanting hundredsof meaningless verses isoneDhamma-sayingthat on hearingbrings peace. Greater in battlethan the man who would conquera thousand-thousand men,is he who would conquerjust one—himself. Better to conquer…
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The Dhammapada: Embracing Meaningful Existence and Self-Mastery
“Better than if there were thousands of meaningless words is one meaningful word that on hearing brings peace. Better than if there were thousands of meaningless verses is one meaningful line of verse that on hearing brings peace. And better than chanting hundreds of meaningless verses is one Dhamma-saying that on hearing brings peace. Greater…
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