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- To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind.…
- It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
- A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is…
- If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?
- A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
- 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…
- A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
- Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.
- Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.
- One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried treasure. To one…
- The wind cannot overturn a mountain. Temptation cannot touch the man Who is awake, strong and humble, Who masters hiself and minds the law.
- If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
- The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from…
- Let him the intelligent man admonish, let him teach, let him forbid what is improper ! - he will be beloved of the good, by…
- If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.
- If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers…
- When a man is stimulated by his own thoughts, full of desire and dwelling on what is attractive, his craving increases even more. He is…
- There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close…
- Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he may indeed be…
- Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.
- Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others…
- A virtuous man or woman who is determined to develop the Supreme Enlightened Mind, should thus develop it: I have to lead all living beings…
- Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus…
- Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.
- There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise…
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