Gautama Buddha Quotes
Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.
We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.
As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.
When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.
Greater than all the joysOf heaven and earth, Greater still than dominionOver all the worlds, Is the joy of reaching the stream.
Like a caring motherholding and guarding the lifeof her only child, so with a boundless heartof lovingkindness, hold yourself and all beingsas your beloved children.
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
a dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
So also is the case if I don’t care the one abusing me. He is the one going to be demeaned.
How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.
Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.
What is the happiness ? Is it really happiness ? Nothing stable, just happen, stay and decay... Everything is impermanence, dissatisfaction and nothing can ever belong to itself
I shall live here in the rains, There in winter, Elsewhere in summer, " muses the fool, Not aware of the nearness of death.
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.
He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.
Just to say 'I believe' or 'I do not doubt' does not mean that you understand and see. To force oneself to see and accept a thing without understanding is political and not spiritual or intellectual.
Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention
Who have not led the holy lifenor riches won while young, they linger on as aged cranesaround a fished-out pond.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it
To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.
Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
