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ŚĀNTIDEVA; BODHICARYĀVATĀRA 7.49-7.51
18.
Abandoning gossip, he abstains from gossip; he speaks at the right time, speaks what is fact, speaks on what is good, speaks on the Dhamma and the Discipline; at the right time he speaks such words as are worth recording, reasonable, moderate, and beneficial.
MAJJHIMA-NIKĀYA i.180
19.
If nothing is permanent,
What will be impermanent,
Permanent and impermanent,
Or neither?
NĀGĀRJUNA; MŪLAMADHYAMAKA-KĀRIKĀ XXVII, 20
20.
Pride and indifference shroud this heart, too, as the sun is obscured by the piled-up clouds; supercilious thoughts root out all modesty of mind, and sorrow saps the strongest will.
FO-SHO-HING-TSAN-KING 1809
21.
Devoid of form and color,
Excelling the sense realms,
Is this wondrous mind
Out-reaching words and phrases.
HUNDRED THOUSAND SONGS OF MILAREPA
22.
This dharma is such that it cannot be attained by groping or searching about. In the realm of seeing, knowledge perishes. At the moment of attaining, mind is surpassed.
DŌGEN; MOON IN A DEWDROP
23.
And those who have no mental vigilance,
Though they may hear the teachings, ponder them or meditate,
With minds like water seeping from a leaking jug,
Their learning will not settle in their memories.
ŚĀNTIDEVA; BODHICARYĀVATĀRA 5.25
24.
Monks, I say there is no wicked deed that may not be committed by . . . the human being who has transgressed in one thing. What one thing? I mean the intentional uttering of a falsehood.
ITIVUTTAKA 25
25.
If I had supernatural power, I could take you up to the Pure Land of Amitābha Buddha for a visit, or to the Kingdom of God if you are a Christian. I am sure that everything would be nice and clean there, with beautiful scenery. But once you were there, how would your footsteps be? Can you be sure that your footprints in the Pure Land would not show traces of worries and sorrows you carried from this saṃsāric, worldly life?
If you take your worries and sorrows along with you and set them on the Pure Land, you would defile the Pure Land and make it much less pure! To deserve the Pure Land, you must be able to take peaceful and anxiety-free steps right here on this saṃsāric ground.
THICH NHAT HANH; GUIDE TO WALKING MEDITATION
26.
[E]arnestly practice every good work.
FO-SHO-HING-TSAN-KING 1981
27.
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.
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.
DHAMMAPADA 1-2
28.
Actually, emptiness of mind is not even a state of mind, but the original essence of mind which Buddha and the Sixth Patriarch experienced. “Essence of mind,” “original mind,” “original face,” “Buddha nature,” “emptiness”—all these words mean the absolute calmness of our mind.
SHUNRYU SUZUKI; ZEN MIND, BEGINNER’S MIND
29.
Just as vessels made of clay by a potter all have breaking as their end, so is the life of mortals.
SUTTA NIPĀTA 577
30.
Look into the sphere of birthless mind!
Let dawn the enjoyment of ceaseless play!
When free of hope and fear—that’s the result.
Why speak of birth and death?
Come to the natural, unmodified state!
DRINKING THE MOUNTAIN STREAM: SONGS OF
TIBET’S BELOVED SAINT, MILAREPA
31.
Our very nature is Buddha, and apart from this nature there is no other Buddha.
THE SUTRA OF HUI NENG
32.
If you remove (from conduct) the purpose of the mind, the bodily act is but as rotten wood; wherefore, regulate the mind, and then the body will spontaneously go right.
FO-SHO-HING-TSAN-KING 527
33.
Of slight account, monks, is the loss of such things as wealth. Miserable indeed among losses is the loss of wisdom.
Of slight account,