The Buddha
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Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever’s not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.
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Radiate boundless love towards the entire world…
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When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself.
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‘All conditioned things are impermanent’ — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.
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I do not dispute with the world; rather it is the world that disputes with me.
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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
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Delight in heedfulness! Guard well your thoughts!
The Buddha
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Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.
The Buddha
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The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what’s pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false.
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Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.
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There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires.
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I, too, do not envision a doctrine of self the clinging to which there would not arise sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair.
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Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.
The Buddha
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They blame those who remain silent, they blame those who speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed.
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If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow.
The Buddha