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“Not all minds are valid cognizers because not all minds know their object non-deceptively. For example, a tree stump at dusk may appear to our eye consciousness as a person, but this mind is not a valid mind and deceives…

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“If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind.”

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“You, a human being, who possess an animal’s mind, please listen to my song. Normally”

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“In Sutra of the Four Noble Truths Buddha says: ‘You should know sufferings.’ In saying this Buddha is advising us that we should know…

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“Buddha has great compassion that is completely impartial, embracing all living beings without discrimination.”

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“Si estimamos a todos los seres sintientes como nos estimamos a nosotros mismos, generaremos la profunda compasión universal”

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“Whenever we have a problem, it is easy to think that it is caused by our particular circumstances, and that if we were to change our circumstances our problem would disappear. We blame other people, our friends, our food, our government, our times, the weather, society, history and so forth. However, external circumstances such as these are not the main…

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“is no benefit in denying the sufferings of future lives; when they actually descend upon me it will be too late to protect myself from them. Therefore I definitely need to prepare protection now, while I have this human life that gives me the opportunity to liberate myself permanently from the sufferings of my countless future lives. If I do…

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“Problems arise only if we respond to difficulties with a negative state of mind. Therefore, if we want to be free from problems, we…

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“By doing this, when his or her wisdom of superior seeing directly realizes the emptiness of all phenomena, the Bodhisattva advances from the path of preparation to the path of seeing and becomes a Bodhisattva on the path of seeing. This Bodhisattva’s initial direct realization of emptiness, and all other realizations associated with this initial direct realization of emptiness, are…

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“Happiness and suffering are states of mind and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we want to…

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“want to protect and liberate myself permanently from the sufferings of this life and countless future lives. I can accomplish this only by receiving…

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“may die today’ is the realization of death. It is this realization that directly eliminates our laziness of attachment and opens the door to…

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