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W hat is meant by the Perfect Reward-body? One light can illuminate the darkness of a thousand years, and one bit of wisdom can destroy the ignorance of ten thousand years. Never mind looking back to the past; always consider the future, and always make future thoughts good. This is called the Reward-body. The reward of one evil thought will remove the good of a thousand years, and the reward of one good thought will destroy the evil of a thousand years. At all times make the next thought a good one. This is called the Reward-body.

quote 2311 | Hui Neng
Hui-neng, in the “Plateform scripture” (liu-tsu t’an-ching), in Wing-Tsit Chan, Chinese Philosophy, Chapter 26, 20

F ollow Nature and place perfect principle in the forefront. If we follow it, there will be fortune, and if we disobey it, there will be misfortune.

quote 2279 | Wang Bi
WANG PI, Lao Tzu chu, or Commentary on the Lao Tzu, ch. 42, in Wing-Tsit Chan, Chinese Philosophy, Chapter 19.

W hat others have taught, I teach also: "Violent and fierce people do not die a natural death." (1)
I shall make this the father (basis or starting point) of my teaching.

quote 2200 | Lao Tzu
Laozi 42, in Wing-Tsit Chan, Chinese Philosophy, Chapter 7.

(1) An ancient Chinese saying.

H e who assists the ruler with Tao does not dominate the world with force.
The use of force usually brings requital.
Wherever armies are stationed, briers and thorns grow.

quote 2193 | Lao Tzu
Laozi, 30, in Wing-Tsit Chan, Chinese Philosophy, Chapter 7.

T here will come a time when the mighty ocean will dry up, vanish, and be no more. There will come a time when the mighty earth will be devoured by fire, perish, and be no more. But yet there will be no end to the suffering of beings, who, obstructed by ignorance, and ensnared by craving, are hurrying and hastening through this round of rebirths.

quote 2110 | Buddha Sakyamuni
Samyutta Nikaya, XXII. 9

A nd wherever the beings spring into existence. There their deeds will ripen; and wherever their deeds ripen, there they will earn the fruits of those deeds, be it in this life, or be it in the next life, or be it in any other future life.

quote 2109 | Buddha Sakyamuni
Anguttara Nikaya, III. 33

A ll beings are the owners of their deeds (kamma, Skr: karma), the heirs of their deeds: their deeds are the womb from which they sprang, with their deeds they are bound up, their deeds are their refuge. Whatever deeds they do-good or evil-of such they will be the heirs.

quote 2108 | Buddha Sakyamuni
Anguttara Nikaya, X. 206

I t is volition (cetanaa) that I call `Karma' (action). Having willed, one acts by body, speech, and mind.
There are actions (kamma) ripening in hells. . . Ripening in the animal kingdom. . . Ripening in the domain of ghosts. . . Ripening amongst men. . . Ripening in heavenly worlds.
The result of actions (vipaaka) is of three kinds: ripening in the present life, in the next life, or in future lives.

quote 2107 | Buddha Sakyamuni
Anguttara Nikaya, VI. 63

N ot in the air, nor ocean-midst,
Nor hidden in the mountain clefts,
Nowhere is found a place on earth,
Where man is freed from evil deeds.

quote 2106 | Buddha Sakyamuni
Khuddaka Nikaya, Dhammapada, 127

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