Examination of The Secret Law

By avoiding worldly hustle and bustle, you will be happy; but if you don't avoid them, at least keep company with good people.
How could you cherish a poisonous snake? But if you decide to raise one, then earnestly chant your mantras.

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Grasp a single word of the scriptures every day, just as ants build anthills and bees build honeycombs, it won't take long before you become wise.

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When the mind is greatly agitated, there's no opportunity to practice the holy teachings. Abiding peacefully, the mind becomes serviceable for meritious practice.

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People well versed in all aspects of concentration, whose minds are well tamed through meditation, can be fields where all virtues may appear, if such people practice the teachings rightly.

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If you want to walk the paths of good conduct, no matter what, stick to the good sayings. Then always being patient, guard your conduct rightly, even at the cost of your own life.

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If you want to diligently accomplish your aims, act for the sake of others. It is impossible for you to achieve your aims by placing your own goals first.

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People who work primarily for the sake of others accomplish their goals in the end, and therefore may seem to be cunning. But people who work primarily for themselves end up making others more succesful, and themselves seem simple minded.

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Even if you strive for the sake of this present life, you will succeed happily if you act in accord with Dharma. Observe the difference between the prosperity of virtous people and that of thieves.
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If you conquer a foe who harmed you, then you must conquer your own anger. From beginningless time in cyclic existence anger has harmed you more than anything else.

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You may want to destroy every enemy, but how can you slay them all? Yet by merely destroying your own anger, all your enemies are simultaneous slain.

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Grasses that grow from a single plant are scattered by the wind to the ten directions. In the same way, people born together get separated by the force of their actions from previous lives.

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If you cannot tolerate the fact that others prosper, then your intolerance destroys your own prosperity. Therefore you would simple be jealous of yourself.

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This body becomes the receptacle of an ocean of sufferings and is like an enemy. But if wise people know how to regard the body, they can find abasis for virtue therein.

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In this world, it is uncertain whether something loaned will be returned. But by giving even a little to a beggar you will gain effortlessly a hundredfold.

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A fine horse is distinguished by its speed, gold and silver are distinguisted by their melting points, an elephant is distinguished by its conduct on the battlefild, and wise are distinguished by the good sayings they compose.

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Those who understand worldly actions rightly accomplish the system of the holy Dharma. Hence the practice of that Sacred Law is the way of the Bodhisattvas.

Sakya Pandita.