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F orm does not differ from emptiness; emptiness does not differ from form. Form itself is emptiness; emptiness itself is form.


Buddhism quote 7997 |  Translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.   See original Chinese

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T he world is impermanent . Countries are perilous and fragile. The body is a source of pain, ultimately empty. The five skandhas are not the true self. Life and Death is nothing but a series of transformations-hallucinatory, unreal, uncontrollable. The intellect is a wellspring of turpitude, the body a breeding ground of offenses.


Buddhism quote 7998 |  Translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.   See original Chinese

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B lind is the world; here only a few possess insight. Only a few, like birds escaping from the net, go to realms of bliss.


Buddhism quote 7999 |  v.174, translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita.   See original Chinese

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W hen this world is ever ablaze, why this laughter, why this jubilation? Shrouded in darkness, will you not see the light?


Buddhism quote 8000 |  v.146, translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita.   See original Chinese

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E re long, alas! This body will lie upon the earth, unheeded and lifeless, like a useless log.


Buddhism quote 8001 |  v.41, translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita.   See original Chinese

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F ully worn out is this body, a nest of disease, and fragile. This foul mass breaks up, for death is the end of life.


Buddhism quote 8002 |  v.148, translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita.   See original Chinese

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T he Great Ghost of Impermanence comes so unexpectedly that the spirit of the deceased drifts unconsciously without knowing his offenses and blessings. For forty-nine days they are as if in a state of delusion and deafness or under judgment for their karmic retributions. Once judgment is fixed, rebirths are undergone according to their karma. Pending judgment, the deceased has to go through myriads of sufferings, not to mention the agonies of falling to the evil paths.


Buddhism quote 8003 |  Translated by Pure Voices. Hong Kong.   See original Chinese

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E ach receives his karmic consequences and nobody else can take his place. In accordance with different acts of good and evil, people are destined to realms of bliss or suffering.


Buddhism quote 8004 |  Translated by Hisao Inagaki.   See original Chinese

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T he root of beginningless birth and death, which is the mind that seizes upon conditions and that you and all living beings now make use of, taking it to be your own nature.


Buddhism quote 8005 |  Book 1, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.   See original Chinese

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H aving lost sight of that original brightness, although beings use it to the end of their days, they are unaware of it, and unintentionally enter the various destinies.


Buddhism quote 8006 |  Book 1, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.   See original Chinese

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S o it is that when the seven destinies of hell-dwellers, hungry ghosts, animals, people, spiritual immortals, gods, and asuras are investigated in detail, they are all found to be murky and embroiled in conditioned existence. Their births come from false thoughts. Their subsequent karma comes from false thoughts.


Buddhism quote 8007 |  Book 9, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.   See original Chinese

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B ecause all beings have different consciousness and thoughts, they perform different actions and as a consequence there is the turning around (cycle of rebirth) in all the different courses of existence.


Buddhism quote 8008 |  Translated by Saddhaloka Bhikkhu.   See original Chinese

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I know that these living beings have never cultivated good roots. They are firmly attached to the five desires, and, out of stupidity and love60, become afflicted. Because of all their desires, they fall into the three evil paths, they turn on the wheel in the six destinies, suffering utter misery.


Buddhism quote 8009 |  Ch.2, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.   See original Chinese

60 Obsessed passion.

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H ard is it to be born a man; hard is the life of mortals. Hard is it to gain the opportunity of hearing the Sublime Truth, and hard to encounter is the arising of the Buddhas.


Buddhism quote 8010 |  v.182, translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita.   See original Chinese

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H aving become a Buddha in this world, I now dwell in the midst of the five evils, the five sufferings, and the five burnings. This is extremely painful for me. I will teach multitudes of beings, making them abandon the five evils, avoid the five sufferings, and escape from the five burnings. I will train their minds and lead them to practice the five good deeds, so that they may acquire merit and virtue and attain emancipation, long life, and Nirvana.


Buddhism quote 8011 |  Translated by Hisao Inagaki.   See original Chinese

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P eople in the world strive for things of little urgency. Amidst extreme evils and severe sufferings, they diligently work . . . dictated by their minds. . . . Whether they have or do not have, they worry.


Buddhism quote 8012 |  Translated by Pure Land Translation Team.   See original Chinese

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W ith arising and ceasing gone, tranquility was revealed. Suddenly I 61 transcended the worldly and transcendental, and a perfect brightness prevailed throughout the ten directions.


Buddhism quote 8013 |  Book 6, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.   See original Chinese

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T he Supreme Maha-Parinirvana is perfect, permanent, calm, and illuminating.


Buddhism quote 8014 |  The Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra,ch.7, translated by A. F. Price and Wong Mou-Lam.   See original Chinese

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E ven during the cataclysmic fire at the end of a Kalpa, when ocean beds are burnt dry, or during the blowing of the catastrophic wind when one mountain topples on another, the real and everlasting bliss of ‘Perfect Rest’ and ‘Cessation of Changes’ of Nirvana remains in the same state and changes not.


Buddhism quote 8015 |  The Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra, ch.7, translated by A. F. Price and Wong Mou-Lam.   See original Chinese

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H aving well learned the extensive wisdom of fearlessness and having realized the illusory nature of dharmas, he destroys Mara’s nets and unties all the bonds of passion.


Buddhism quote 8016 |  Translated by Hisao Inagaki.   See original Chinese

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I f you can influence phenomena, then you are the same as the Tathagata. With body and mind perfect and bright, you are your own unmoving Way-place. The tip of a single fine hair can completely contain the lands of the ten directions.


Buddhism quote 8017 |  Book 2, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.   See original Chinese

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T here is no fear for an awakened one, whose mind is not sodden (by lust) nor afflicted (by hate), and who has gone beyond both merit and demerit.


Buddhism quote 8018 |  v.39, translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita.   See original Chinese

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Y ou should realize that the Tathagata’s perfectly enlightened wisdom is unfathomable, capable of leading innumerable beings to emancipation, and that his penetrating insight cannot be obstructed.


Buddhism quote 8019 |  Translated by Hisao Inagaki.   See original Chinese

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T he Buddha himself dwells in the Great Vehicle62, And in accord with the Dharmas he has gained, Adorned with the power of samadhi and wisdom, He uses these to save living beings.


Buddhism quote 8020 |  Book 1, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.   See original Chinese

62 The Great Vehicle Buddhism

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H e is above all worldly affairs and his mind, always serene, dwells on the path of emancipation; this gives him complete control over all dharmas.


Buddhism quote 8021 |  Translated by Hisao Inagaki.   See original Chinese

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