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Book: The Big Questions: A Buddhist Response to Life's Most Challenging Mysteries
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  1. Lama Surya Das _ The Big Questions: A Buddhist

    Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
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  2. Lama Surya Das _ The Big Questions: A Buddhist

    We are obliged to live as if there's meaning in life, without any guarantee that there is.
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  3. Lama Surya Das _ The Big Questions: A Buddhist

    All the happiness and virtue in this world come from selflessness and generosity, all the sorrow from egotism, selfishness, and greed.
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  4. Lama Surya Das _ The Big Questions: A Buddhist

    opting for happiness and contentment is a decision that we can make at any time and that needs to be continually remade at every turn.
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  5. Lama Surya Das _ The Big Questions: A Buddhist

    The past is over, and the future is unknown. We can dwell in the imagined worlds of yesterday and tomorrow if we so choose. But the more we do so, the more we miss out on life itself as it is happening, moment by moment, and the more we fail to realize who we actually are, moment by moment."
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  6. Lama Surya Das _ The Big Questions: A Buddhist

    As long as we're preoccupied with our former traumas and triumphs, or our fears and dreams about what might happen down the road, or who said what to whom, it's very difficult to appreciate and cherish the intrinsically joyful gift of life right here, now.
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  7. Lama Surya Das _ The Big Questions: A Buddhist

    pleasure and pain arise from virtuous and non-virtuous actions which come not from outside, but from within yourself.
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