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“As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.” quote by Gautama Buddha — Download Open image

“As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.”

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For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

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Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone besides yourselves. And those, Ananda, who either now or after I am dead, Shall be a lamp unto themselves, Shall betake themselves as no…

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Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.

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Pain is the outcome of sin.

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It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.

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If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.

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One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.

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