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No suffering is self-caused.
Nothing causes itself.
If another is not self-made,
How could suffering be caused by another? If suffering were caused by each,
Suffering could be caused by both.
Not caused by self or by other,
How could suffering be uncaused?

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trans. Jay Garfield, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way (1995), ISBN 0195093364

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Even three times a day to offer
Three hundred cooking pots of food
Does not match a portion of the merit
In one instant of love.

Although you may spend your life killing,
You will not exhaust all your foes.
But if you quell your own anger,
your real enemy will be slain.

The science, which teaches arts and handicrafts
Is merely science for the gaining of a living;
But the science which teaches deliverance from worldly existence,
Is not that the true science?

The accomplishments of a teacher of ants
Are but accomplishments for earning a living.
But the study of the termination of earthly incarnation—
Why should that not be the accomplishment?

Without hope of reward
Provide help to others.
Bear suffering alone,
And share your pleasures with beggars.

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