reflections...clear vision
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A Power Point Presentation of some selected quotes from the Buddhist Scriptures for Reflection as one walks to Path to Peace and Liberation.TRANSCRIPT
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Speak harshly to none, for those thus spoken to might retort. Indeed angry
speech hurts, and retaliation is painful.Dhammapada 133
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Hate brings great misfortune, hate churns up and harms the mind; this fearful danger lies
deep within, most people understand this not.Itivuttaka 88
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Let none deceive another or despise anyone anywhere, or through anger or irritation wish for
another to suffer.Sutta Nipata
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With goodwill for the entire cosmos, cultivate a boundless heart: above, below
and all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate. Sutta Nipata
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If you hold yourself dear,
then don’t fetter yourself with evil, for happiness isn’t
easily gained by one who commits
a wrong.Samyutta Nikaya
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Though one may conquer a thousand times a thousand men in battle, yet he
indeed is the Noblest victorwho conquers
himself.
Dhammapada 103
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The past should not be followed after and the future not desired; what is past is dead and
gone and the future is yet to come.Majhima Nikaya
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Good it is to train the mind so swiftly
moving, grasping whatever.
Good it is to have a well-trained mind for a well-trained mind
brings ease.
Dhammapada 35
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By evil, is one defiled;
by avoiding evil, is one cleansed.
Purity and impurity are one’s own doing:
no one purifies another.
Dhammapada 165
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“Impermanent are all phenomena.”When one perceives this with true insight, then
one becomes detached from stress: this is the path of purity. Dhammapada 277
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Live without covetous greed, fill
your mind with benevolence.
Be mindful and one-pointed,
inwardly stable and concentrated.
Anguttara Nikaya
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From craving arises grief, from craving
arises fear.
For one who is free of craving there is no
grief.So how fear?
Dhammapada 215
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Of all the fragrances – sandal, tagara, blue lotus and jasmine – the frangrance of virtue is the sweetest.
Dhammapada 55
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How ugly is the angry man?His sleep is without peace. Despite his wealth he is poor; filled with anger he wounds by speech
and deed. Anguttara Nikaya
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According to the seed that is sown, so is the fruit you reap therefrom.
The doer of good gathers good, The doer of evil, evil. Samyutta Nikaya
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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.Dhammapada 24
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Do not be attached to
one view and look down upon the views of others as
inferior. This the wise man calls a mental
hindrance.Sutta Nipata
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Beings fall not to unhappy states through loss of relatives, wealth, or health.
Beings fall to unhappy states through loss of virtue and right view. Digha Nikaya
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The End
May All Beings Grow In Wisdom And Compassion!
With Metta,Bro. Oh Teik Bin