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Take pleasure in solitude, without being attached to it.
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True happiness arises when we find contentment in the present moment, without clinging to the past or grasping for the future.
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Right Understanding is to understand suffering, the origin of suffering, the extinction of suffering, and the path to its extinction.
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There in nirvana, comes to light the elements of beings, like the sun that lights all the heavens.
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Mindful among the mindless, awake while others dream, swift as the racehorse, the wakeful outstrip the field.
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Don't sorrow over the past. Don't long for the future. Survive on the present. This is why the faces of the wise are bright and serene.
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Everything arises and passes away. When you see this, you are above sorrow. This is the shining way.
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Nirvana is neither arising nor passing away, neither standing still, nor being born, nor is it dying.
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A monk attends to nonduality based on the perception of the dimension of infinite space.
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The five skandhas are like a dream, an image, a mirage, an apparition, and devoid of marks.
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May the ease of non-attachment, the ease of freedom, the ease of the nirvana be common to all beings.
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The extinction of greed, anger and delusion ― this indeed is called nirvana.
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There is a realm, Nirvana, where there is neither this world nor any other world.
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Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts left unguarded.
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The five skhandas are the holding mass of matter, feelings, perceptions, desires and individual consciousness.
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The six elements are the elements of earth, water, fire, air, space and consciousness.
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I realized that the earth, water, fire, air, space and individual consciousness are void of a self.
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Avoid gossip and unite those that are divided. Encourage those that are united. Delight and rejoice in unity that is spread by Right Speech.
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Just as a seed is small but a tree is very large, a karmic seed is small, but the results are great.
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Follow dharma and be pure. At the end of the way is freedom. Until then, patience.
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A Bodhisattva should mature beings, so they are gradually liberated by the triple device, until in the end they are set free from samsara.
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The first samadhi is free from five things: lust, ill-will, laziness, restlessness and doubts.
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All things arise and pass way, but the awakened awake forever!
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A bodhisattva contemplates stillness, yet moves in order to develop all beings.
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Greater than all the joys of heaven and earth, greater still than dominion over all the worlds, is the joy of reaching the stream.
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Right Effort is the effort to avoid, the effort to overcome, the effort to develop, and the effort to maintain.
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Right Action is to avoid killing living things, without stick or sword, being conscientious and full of sympathy for the welfare of all beings.
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The Tathagata has attained deliverance from attachment, inasmuch as all imaginings concerning an ego have perished.
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Nirvana -- liberated from sensual craving, the craving for existence, one does not return, does not enter again into existence.
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There is an unborn, unoriginated, uncreated, unformed realm ― nirvana. If this were not so, escape from the world of the born would not be possible.
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A bodhisattva understands suffering, yet reincarnates voluntarily.
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One who is awake finds joy in the stillness of meditation and in the sweetness of surrender.
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On liberation ceases birth, old age, death, sorrow, lamentation, misery, grief, and despair.
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Through attachment to individual consciousness, the belief arises: "This is mine; this I am."
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When I pulled out sorrow's shaft, I showed you the way. It is you who must make the effort. The masters only point the way.
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The extinction of suffering is the complete extinction of craving, its forsaking and giving up, the liberation and detachment from it -- Nirvana.
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Meditate on water. Gaze on water, clear and pure. Remember this image, clear and fixed. Never allow your thoughts to be scattered and lost.
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To practice deceit, treachery, soothsaying, trickery, usury -- this is wrong livelihood.
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The enlightenment of the buddhas arises from the Dharma, and one honors them by Dharma worship, not by material things.
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Birth is suffering. Decay is suffering. Death is suffering. Sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.
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Understand that form, feeling, perception, mental formations and consciousness are transient and subject to suffering.
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When one does not discriminate nirvana as nirvana, one cannot fall out of nirvana.
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Just as a rock is unshaken by the wind, so the five skandhas cannot cause the one who is liberated to waver.
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Go beyond likes and dislikes, passion and desire, sensuousness and lust, grief and fear, free yourself from attachment.
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The wisdom of a bodhisattva is concerned with winning nirvana for all beings.
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Go beyond this way or that way, to the farthest shore where the world dissolves and everything becomes clear.
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Defining the seen as the seen, the heard as the heard, the sensed as the sensed, the cognized as the cognized are the four ways of defining.
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One who understands contrasts of life and is no more disturbed by anything has passed beyond birth and decay.
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The bodhisattva should win over beings through the four means of conversion -- gifts, kind words, helpfulness, and consistency between words and deeds.
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Abandon yesterday, tomorrow and today. Cross over to the farthest shore beyond life and death.
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Reject absolutely evil actions and mixed ones as well and strive to perform only absolutely pure actions.
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A monk who is in bondage to passion for enjoyment is said to be far from nirvana.
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Through persistence one overcomes suffering and stress. Through discernment a person is purified.
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A Bodhisattva who wants to fully know all dharmas in all their modes should stand in perfect wisdom.
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Develop the mind above the material world, then there will be no greed, anger, or quarrels and the mind will become limitless.
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Clinging is never kept within bounds. It is sure to go the wrong way. Quit it, and things follow the natural course.
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Abstain from harsh language and from vain talk -- this is called mundane Right Speech and yields worldly fruits bringing good karmic results.
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Do not worship me with material objects, worship me with the Dharma-worship. Do not honor me with material objects, honor me by honoring Dharma.
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Speak the truth. Give what you can. Never be angry. These three steps will lead you into the presence of the gods.
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A buddha recalls a hundred thousand births, and many an eon of integration.
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Suffering in this present life is dependent on craving, conditioned through craving, caused by craving, and entirely dependent on craving.
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Do not sorrow for what is disappearing, nor desire the attractive.
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The Four Unlimited, a Bodhisattva radiates friendliness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and impartiality in the ten directions.
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Form is transient. Feeling is transient. Perception is transient. Desire is transient. Consciousness is transient.
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Believe, meditate and see. Be harmless, be blameless. Awake to the Dharma and from all sorrow, free yourself.
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Action is what differentiates beings in terms of baseness and excellence.
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It is through clinging to the five skandhas that beings come into existence.
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Make the mind holy and turn away from the world, united with the Eightfold Path -- this is called mundane Right Living.
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Right Concentration is to fix the mind on a particular object. Detached from sense objects, the disciple enters into the first samadhi.
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Discipline the mind to overcome bad karma that has already arisen. Strive and put forth energy and struggle to do this -- Right Effort.
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Abide with thoughts of loving kindness in all circumstances, free of ill will and anger.
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The bodhisattva purifies the buddha-field by purifying the thoughts of all beings.
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The way is eightfold. There are four truths. All virtue lies in detachment. The master has an open eye.
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Delight in mediation and in solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker!
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A bodhisattva knows selflessness but does not waste oneself.
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In making efforts to overcome wrong living, to arouse Right Living, one practices Right Effort.
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Rebirth is to be united to the undesired and separated from the desired.
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Though you may read many sutras and speak about them to others, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?
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Whenever a Bodhisattva is reborn, he pleases the Buddhas and Lords until he has known full enlightenment.
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The decay of beings is their getting aged, frail, gray and wrinkled; the failing of their vital force, the wearing out of the senses.
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With the abandoning of pleasure and pain, one remains in the fourth jnana: purity of equanimity and mindfulness, neither pleasure nor pain."
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Whether the world is eternal, temporal, finite or infinite, certainly there is suffering and the obtainable extinction of suffering.
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I have laid hold of samsara for no other reason than to benefit beings.
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Because a bodhisattva has no wishes, she does not rest in the unmanifest.
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Nirvana is immediately visible in this life, inviting, attractive and comprehensible to the wise.
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Some Bodhisattvas taste the five kinds of sense qualities for the sake of maturing beings, but without being stained by the senses.
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Happiness or sorrow, whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.
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Most have not obtained the divine eye and cannot perceive what is at a distance. Yet, Buddhas can give you a glimpse of the Buddha fields.
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A bodhisattva protects beings from all the sufferings which belong to samsara and leads them gradually to nirvana.
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Bodily conduct should be purified, clear and open, flawless and restrained; yet do not disparage others on account of your purified conduct.
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Right Effort -- With control over the senses, one experiences inwardly a feeling of joy, into which no evil thing can enter.
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Strive to not live with great fear. Abide in overcoming all fears that arise.
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Seek freedom and happiness. Awake, reflect and watch. Work with care and attention. Live in the way and the light will grow in you.
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Names and signs are sources of attachment because all things are signless and nameless.
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There are buddha-fields that teach with words, definitions and examples ― and there are utterly pure buddha-fields that teach without speech, by silence, inexpressibility and unteachability.
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Just as a lotus rises up above the water with no water adhering to it, in the same way the buddha dwells with unrestricted awareness.
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