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Gerry B. Girouard

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A queer person who reads the suttas of Buddha, the words of Christ and the writings of Abraham Heschel. I do not do ad hominem.

“When overcome by disdain beings go to a bad place. Having rightly understood that disdain, the discerning give it up. Once they’ve given it up, they never return to this world.” The words of the Buddha from the Itivuttaka

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From a heap of trash discarded on the highway, a lotus might blossom, fragrant and delightful. So too, among those thought of as trash, a disciple of the perfect Buddha outshines with their wisdom, the blind ordinary folk. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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Thinking the inessential is essential, seeing the essential as inessential; they don’t realize the essential, for wrong thoughts are their habitat. Having known the essential as essential, and the inessential as inessential; they realize the essential, for right thoughts are their habitat. Buddha

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A liar goes to hell, as does one who denies what they did. Both are equal in the hereafter, those men of base deeds. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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One accomplished in virtue and vision, firmly principled, and truthful, doing oneself what ought be done: that’s who the people love. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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When a person, spurning the hereafter,transgresses in just one thing— lying— there is no evil they would not do. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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He who once was heedless, but turned to heedfulness, lights up the world like the moon freed from clouds. Someone whose bad deed is supplanted by the good, lights up the world, like the moon freed from clouds. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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