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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is
the way. |
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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a
single candle, and the life of the candle will
not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by
being shared.
Tame
the mind. This is the greatest challenge before
you. It rushes here and there, swifter than the
wind, more slippery than water. If you can
arrest the flights of the mind to your will,
happiness will be assured to you.
The
wise man takes great care to guard his
thoughts. They are very subtle, very difficult
to perceive and slip out of control at the
tinniest opportunity. A
well guarded mind brings happiness.
The
earnest person is like fire. Fire burns away
everything big or small. The Greatest man and
the smallest are equally consumed by fire. The
fire of earnestness demolishes all the vanities,
passions and terrors of life.
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.
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We are shaped by our thoughts; we become
what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that
never leaves. |
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Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the
moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine. |
Buddha |
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All
that we are is the result of what we have
thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil
thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or
acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him,
like a shadow that never leaves him.
Let
the wise guard their thoughts, which are
difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and
wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is
the bearer of happiness.
If
you keep thinking of all the way in which others
cheated you, fought with you, degraded you or
angered you, your heart will forever be full of
hatred. Learn to let go, and be happy.
He
who is seeking his own happiness and who
punishes those who also long for happiness is
running after a chimera. No happiness shall come
his way for having destroyed that of others.
The
wise man knows that the earnestness is the most
beautiful jewel in his crown. His happiness is
not marred. It is the only jewel which gains in
beauty with every passing day, where diamonds
and rubies lose their gloss with every passing
day.
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If you light a lamp for someone else
it will also brighten your path. |
Buddha |
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Conquer the angry man by love.
Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness. |
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Buddha taught
how to overcome the compulsively
non-virtuous minds that confine us to states
of discontent and misery, and how to
cultivate the
virtuous minds that liberate us from
pain and lead us to the bliss of full
enlightenment. |
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A
Buddhist emblem resembling a wagon
wheel, with eight spokes, each representing
one of the eight tenets of buddhist belief.
The circle
symbolizes the completeness of the
Dharma, the spokes represent the
eightfold path leading to enlightenment...
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