"By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By……" — Huineng
"By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind."
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15 Quotes by Huineng
Huineng has 15 quotes on this site.
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Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming…
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Words are not truth. Truth is like the moon, and words are like my finger. I can point to the…
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Look within!... The secret is inside you.
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Truth has nothing to do with words. Truth can be likened to the bright moon in the sky. Words, in…
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When our mind works freely without any hindrance, and is at liberty to 'come' or to 'go', we attain Samadhi…
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The meaning of life is to see.
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To be bigoted & argue with others, is to subject one's essence of mind to the bitterness of mundane existence.
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Within our impure mind the pure one is to be found.
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It is your minds that are moving.
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As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years…
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Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality.
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Good friends, how then are meditation and wisdom alike? They are like the lamp and the light it gives forth.…
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More Amending Quotes
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Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a…
— William Blackstone
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First and foremost, be faithful to your superiors, keep all promises, refuse the friendship of all who are not like…
— Confucius
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One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive…
— Adrian Cronauer
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The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.
— Matt Ridley
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If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy.
— Jim Rohn
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I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination…
— Ben Nighthorse Campbell
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Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it…
— Lee H. Hamilton
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Many Americans do not realize that we could institute proportional representation for most elections in the U.S. without amending the…
— John Anderson
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We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its…
— Charlie Pierce
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I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends.…
— Brendan Fraser
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug…
— Jimmy Carter
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