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Desire, hatred and illusion are three important factors of disease. |
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There are two kinds of illness. What are those two? Physical illness
and mental illness. There seem to be people who enjoy freedom from
physical illness even for a year or two......even for a hundred years
or more. But rare in this world are those who enjoy freedom from
mental illness even for one moment, except those who are free from
mental defilements. |
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He who is instable of heart unreliable and behaves badly towards
friends can not be of good health. |
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The good give up (attachment for) everything, the saintly prattle not
with thoughts of craving, whether affected by happiness or by pain,
the wise show neither elation nor depression. |
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A wise man, whether happy or sad, will not express his feeling too
overly. |
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Give up the sensual pleasures, with no impediments, the wise man
should cleanse himself of the impurities of the mind. |
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If no wound there be in the hand, one may carry poison in it, poison
does not affect one who has no wound, there is no ill for him who
does no wrong. |
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Whosoever is energetic, mindful, pure in conduct, discriminating,
self-restrained, right-living, vigilant, his health steadily increase. |
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Prevention is better than cure. |
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| 10. |
The physician must determine the true disease without doubt, before
he gives prescription or treatment. |
