Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.
Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the cartwheel follows the foot of the draft animal. If with a pure mind, you speak or act, then happiness follows you as a shadow that never departs
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
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. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.
You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred
Believe nothing, No matter where you read it, Or who has said it, Not even if I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own common sense.
With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.
Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on to the deathless stage experienced by the wise
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.
Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.
When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one's mind remains unshaken, sorrow-less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.
Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.
Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.
I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.
The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.
As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.
Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life.
You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death
When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is
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