'(dukkah) It tells you exactly and objectively what you are and what the world around you is, and shows you the way to perfect freedom, peace, tranquillity and happiness'
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Peter Harvey, Introduction to Buddhism
'transcending suffering requires a fully realistic assessment of its pervasive presence in life'
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Peter Harvey
'the path to the end of suffering is one in which the deep calm and joy of meditation play an important part'
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Peter Harvey
'Buddhism does not deny the existence of happiness in the world it provides ways of increasing it- but it does emphasise that all forms of happiness do not last'
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Buddha
'Be a lamp unto yourself'
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Buddha
'the world lacks and hankers, and is enslaved to 'thirst'
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Thich Nhat Hanh
'to make peace we have to be peace'
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Buddhaghosa
'Mere suffering exists, but no sufferer is found, the deeds are but no doer is found'
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Buddha
'In short, these five aggregates of attachment are dukkha'
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Buddha
'What is dukkha? It should be said that it is the five aggregates of attachment'
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Buddha, The Dhammapada
'What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build out of life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind'
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Buddha, The Dhammapada
'our life is shaped by our mind, we become what we think...'
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John Snelling
'Nothing is handed on, but the conditioning: the influences, the karmic chrare'
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Card 2
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'transcending suffering requires a fully realistic assessment of its pervasive presence in life'
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Peter Harvey, Introduction to Buddhism
Card 3
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'the path to the end of suffering is one in which the deep calm and joy of meditation play an important part'
Back
Card 4
Front
'Buddhism does not deny the existence of happiness in the world it provides ways of increasing it- but it does emphasise that all forms of happiness do not last'
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