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Neither mother, father, nor any other relative can do one greater good than one's own well-directed mind. #buddha
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Whatever harm an enemy may do to an enemy, or a hater to a hater, an ill-directed mind inflicts on oneself a greater harm. #buddha
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Ere long, alas! this body will lie upon the earth, unheeded and lifeless, like a useless log. #buddha
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Realizing that this body is as fragile as a clay pot, and fortifying this mind like a well-fortified city, fight out Mara with the sword of wisdom. Then, guarding the conquest, remain unattached. #buddha
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There is no fear for an awakened one, whose mind is not sodden (by lust) nor afflicted (by hate), and who has gone beyond both merit and demerit. #buddha
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Wisdom never becomes perfect in one whose mind is not steadfast, who knows not the Good Teaching and whose faith wavers. #buddha
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Dwelling in the cave (of the heart), the mind, without form, wanders far and alone. Those who subdue this mind are liberated from the bonds of Mara. #buddha
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Let the discerning man guard the mind, so difficult to detect and extremely subtle, seizing whatever it desires. A guarded mind brings happiness. #buddha
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Wonderful, indeed, it is to subdue the mind, so difficult to subdue, ever swift, and seizing whatever it desires. A tamed mind brings happiness. #buddha
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As a fish when pulled out of water and cast on land throbs and quivers, even so is this mind agitated. Hence should one abandon the realm of Mara. #buddha
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Just as a fletcher straightens an arrow shaft, even so the discerning man straightens his mind — so fickle and unsteady, so difficult to guard. #buddha
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The monk who delights in heedfulness and looks with fear at heedlessness will not fall. He is close to Nibbana. #buddha
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The monk who delights in heedfulness and looks with fear at heedlessness advances like fire, burning all fetters, small and large. #buddha
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By Heedfulness did Indra become the overlord of the gods. Heedfulness is ever praised, and heedlessness ever despised. #buddha
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Heedful among the heedless, wide-awake among the sleepy, the wise man advances like a swift horse leaving behind a weak jade. #buddha
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Just as one upon the summit of a mountain beholds the groundlings, even so when the wise man casts away heedlessness by heedfulness and ascends the high tower of wisdom, this sorrowless sage beholds the sorrowing and foolish multitude. #buddha
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Do not give way to heedlessness. Do not indulge in sensual pleasures. Only the heedful and meditative attain great happiness. #buddha
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By effort and heedfulness, discipline and self-mastery, let the wise one make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm. #buddha
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Ever grows the glory of him who is energetic, mindful and pure in conduct, discerning and self-controlled, righteous and heedful. #buddha
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The wise ones, ever meditative and steadfastly persevering, alone experience Nibbana, the incomparable freedom from bondage. #buddha
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Clearly understanding this excellence of heedfulness, the wise exult therein and enjoy the resort of the Noble Ones. #buddha
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Heedfulness is the path to the Deathless. Heedlessness is the path to death. The heedful die not. The heedless are as if dead already. #buddha
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Little though he recites the sacred texts, but puts the Teaching into practice, forsaking lust, hatred, and delusion, with true wisdom and emancipated mind, clinging to nothing of this or any other world — he indeed partakes of the blessings of a holy life. #buddha
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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 — he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life. #buddha
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The doer of good delights here and hereafter; he delights in both the worlds. The thought, "Good have I done," delights him, and he delights even more when gone to realms of bliss. #buddha
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The evil-doer suffers here and hereafter; he suffers in both the worlds. The thought, "Evil have I done," torments him, and he suffers even more when gone to realms of woe. #buddha
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The doer of good rejoices here and hereafter; he rejoices in both the worlds. He rejoices and exults, recollecting his own pure deeds. #buddha
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The evil-doer grieves here and hereafter; he grieves in both the worlds. He laments and is afflicted, recollecting his own impure deeds. #buddha
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Just as rain does not break through a well-thatched house, so passion never penetrates a well-developed mind. #buddha
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Just as rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, so passion penetrates an undeveloped mind. #buddha
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Those who know the essential to be essential and the unessential to be unessential, dwelling in right thoughts, do arrive at the essential. #buddha
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Those who mistake the unessential to be essential and the essential to be unessential, dwelling in wrong thoughts, never arrive at the essential. #buddha
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But whoever is purged of depravity, well-established in virtues and filled with self-control and truthfulness, he indeed is worthy of the yellow robe. #buddha
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Whoever being depraved, devoid of self-control and truthfulness, should don the monk's yellow robe, he surely is not worthy of the robe. #buddha
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Just as a storm cannot prevail against a rocky mountain, so Mara can never overpower the man who lives meditating on the impurities, who is controlled in his senses, moderate in eating, and filled with faith and earnest effort. #buddha
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Just as a storm throws down a weak tree, so does Mara overpower the man who lives for the pursuit of pleasures, who is uncontrolled in his senses, immoderate in eating, indolent, and dissipated. #buddha
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There are those who do not realize that one day we all must die. But those who do realize this settle their quarrels. #buddha
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Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal. #buddha
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He abused me, he struck me, he overpowered me, he robbed me." Those who do not harbor such thoughts still their hatred. #buddha
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"He abused me, he struck me, he overpowered me, he robbed me." Those who harbor such thoughts do not still their hatred. #buddha
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Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow. #buddha
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Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox. #buddha
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