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those which arise dependently are free of inherent existence.

All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependent-arisings. All phenomena do not inhe...

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It is like a lighted torch whose flame can be distributed to ever so many other torches which people...

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Monks, even if bandits were to savagely sever you, limb by limb, with a double-handled saw, even the...

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Jīvaka, I say that there are three instances in which meat should not be eaten: when it is seen, hea...

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Gautama BuddhaThe Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya

Suppose a man threw into the sea a yoke with one hole in it, and the east wind carried it to the wes...

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Gautama BuddhaThe Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya

Here bhikkhus, some misguided men learn the Dhamma–discourses, stanzas, expositions, verses, exclama...

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Gautama BuddhaThe Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya

So too, friend, purification of virtue is for the sake of reaching purification of mind; purificatio...

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Gautama BuddhaThe Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya