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Conditioned world
It is stated that we were born in the conditioned world; don’t let the world break us or make us hard. Don’t let pain make us hate. Don’t let the bitterness steal our sweetness and don’t let the suffering steal our happiness. We must be strong and true to ourselves, not be deluded by the…
Happiness is based on right understanding
It is like the story written by Leo Tolstoy: A king wanted to have forever happiness. He consulted with his officers how to achieve it. He was advised to find a happy man, take his shirt and put it on, he will be endlessly happy. The king sent his men to look for the happy…
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It is stated that there are two sources of knowledge or wisdom, one’s from the others like reading a book or listening to the teachings of the others, and another’s from ones’ own experience like we might hear a lot about the taste of an apple, but we never know the real taste of the…
Let it go
There is a wise saying: let it go. However, people mostly care too much about what others say, so they cannot let it go; they pick it up and think it over. Worse than that, it makes them neither sleep nor eat well. In practice, they must leave the saying where it was said like…
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