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For those who are ready the door to the deathless state is open. If you have ears give up the conditions that bind you and enter in.
When you realize how perfect [or at least better than it could be] everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.
Inflowing thoughts come to an end in those who are ever alert of mind, training themselves night and day, and ever intent on nirvana
Love yourself and watch - Today, tomorrow, always. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing - Straighten yourself.
For the wakeful one whose mind is quiet, whose thoughts are undisturbed, who has relinquished judgement and blame, there is no fear.
Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up.
All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives, you are Buddha.
Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.
Everything that happens to us is the result of what we ourselves have thought, said, or done.We alone are responsible for our lives.
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.
If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner
To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.
Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content.
Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.
One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.
The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened.
When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.
Those who speak much are blamed, those who speak little are blamed. In this world there are none who are not blamed. Try not to blame.
Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.
Let us live most happily, free from hatred in the midst of the hateful; Let us remain free from hatred in the midst of people who hate.
Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.
I manifested in a dreamlike way to dreamlike beings and gave a dreamlike Dharma, but in reality I never taught and never actually came.
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.
The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.
Here will I live in the rainy season, here in the autumn and in the summer: thus muses the fool. He realizes not the danger (of death).
Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace.
Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for you to follow.
There are these two kinds of gifts: a gift of material things & a gift of the Dhamma. Of the two, this is supreme: a gift of the Dhamma.
All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?
When you move your focus from competition to contribution life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people, just win their hearts.
Life at home is cramped and dirty, it is difficult to live a spiritual life completely, perfect and pure in all its parts while cabinned.
Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create disticntions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.
Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real humanitarianism.
Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled.
As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good.
With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart: above, below, and all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate.
If you don't disturb yourself, like a broken gong does not vibrate, then you have achieved nirvana. Irritability no longer exists for you.
The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.
When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.
Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones
The wind cannot overturn a mountain. Temptation cannot touch the man Who is awake, strong and humble, Who masters hiself and minds the law.
One who previously made bad karma, but who reforms and creates good karma, brightens the world like the moon appearing from behind a cloud.
There is no fire like passion No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger, And no joy like the joy of freedom.
To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing.
The discipline which I have imparted to you will lead you when I am gone. Practice mindfulness diligently, to attain the goal of awakening.