buddhism
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“How very happily we live, free from hostility among those who are hostile. Among hostile people, free from hostility we dwell. How very happily we live, free from misery among those who are miserable. Among miserable people, free from misery we dwell. How very happily we live, free from busyness among those who are busy.…
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“Whose conquest can’t be undone, whose conquest no one in the world can reach; awakened, his pasture endless, pathless: by what path will you lead him astray? In whom there’s no craving—the sticky ensnarer—to lead him anywhere at all; awakened, his pasture endless, pathless: by what path will you lead him astray? They, the enlightened,…
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“Don’t associate with lowly qualities. Don’t consort with heedlessness. Don’t associate with wrong views. Don’t busy yourself with the world. Get up! Don’t be heedless. Live the Dhamma well. One who lives the Dhamma sleeps with ease in this world and the next. Live the Dhamma well. Don’t live it badly. One who lives the…
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“If you hold yourself dear, then guard, guard yourself well. The wise person would stay awake, nursing himself in any of the three watches of the night, the three stages of life. First, he’d settle himself in what is correct, only then teach others. He wouldn’t stain his name: he is wise. If you’d mold…
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“In one who has gone the full distance, who is free from sorrow, and is fully released everywhere, no fever of desire is found. They have abandoned all bonds, maintaining vigilance and not delighting in complacency. They renounce every attachment, like swans soaring away from a lake. Without hoarding and having understood the nature of…
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“Long is the night for those who are awake, and long is a league for the weary. For those who do not comprehend the True Dhamma, samsara, the cycle of rebirth, is endless. If one does not find peers or superiors in wisdom, it is better to persist alone on one’s path, for there is…
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