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To sacred hills, woods and groves,
To sacred trees and shrines
Do people go gripped by fear.
But they are not safe refuges,
Not the best refuges.
Not by going there
Is one freed from all sufferings.
-------------------Buddha Gotama.
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The sacrifice of horse or man, the Peg-Thrown Rite, the Sacrificial Drink, the Victory Rite, the Withdrawn Bolt, all these rites are not worth a sixteenth part of having a heart filled with love, any more than the radiance of the moon outshines the stars
(Anguttara Nikaya, Book of Eights, Sutta No.I).
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"We don't know yet, maybe it (war on Iraq) is a good thing."
---------------------------------Dalai Lama.
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"He (Dalai Lama) had it a social system very exploitative, terribly unequal and terribly brutal..."
-----------------------------Michael Parenti
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"...And what is perfect livelihood ? Concerning this, a noble disciple, by giving up wrong means of livelihood adopts a perfect livelihood."
-------------------------------Buddha Gotama.
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"...
How can someone who has gone down
To the swift-flowing river,
And who gets carried away by current
Help other to cross ?
In the same way, how can one who has not learned the Dharma,
Not listened to the explanations of the wise,
And who is himself ignorant and filled with doubt
Help others to realize it ?"
-------------------------------Buddha Gotama
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Barbara Walters: "Your Holines, are you enlightened ?"
Dalai Lama: "No, i don't know, what would happen tonight i don't know, blur blur...(can't understand what he said)"
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"we are the 21st century, pretending and lies can not work....."
---------------------------------Dalai Lama
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"There is one thing which, if practiced and developed conduces to letting go, stilling, calming, higher knowledge, awakening and to nirvana. And what is that one thing ?
It is the recollection of peace."
-------------------------------Buddha Gotama
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'The doctrines of which you can say: "These doctrines do not lead to letting go, giving up, stilling, calming, higher knowledge, awakening or to nirvana"--you can be certain that they are not Dharma, not discipline, not the word of the Teacher.'
-------------------------------Buddha Gotama
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Human beings are so far the only sentient beings that are capable of rational thinking, and making choice for how to live our lives.
Hardly do we stop and reflect on what have we impose upon other sentient beings.
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Age
33
Country
United States
