Gautama Buddha Quotes
Just as you have come to know, the false discrimination of yourself, apply this mentally to all phenomena
The Beautiful chariots of kings wear out, This body too undergoes decay. But the Dhamma of the good does not decay: So the good proclaim along with the good.
Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on to the deathless stage experienced by the wise
Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.
Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.
A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.
One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.
There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros.
The big belly can accommodate all kinds of things. The benevolence is never let a dust behind.
Let go the past, let go the future, and let go the present (front, back, middle). Crossing to the farther shore of existence, with mind released everywhere, do not further undergo birth and decay.
The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.
Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.
Those who walk in the Way should avoid sensualism as those who carry hay would avoid coming near the fire.
Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a lamp overturned and re-lit, illuminating the darkness.
The man that is dominated by Anger Doth not know what is seemly and seeth not the Law; That man whom Hate doth accompany, Becometh like unto murky darkness.
You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death
When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.
The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage.
If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.
Why are you so sure parallel lines exist? Believe nothing, merely because you have been told it, or because it is traditional, or because you have imagined it.
For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.
A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat.
The world is on fire! And you are laughing? You are deep in the dark. Will you not ask for a light?
Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising of the noble eightfold path.
The whole secret of era is to specific no nervousness. Never nervousness what fortitude become of you, depend on no one. Free the twinkling you annul all help are you unrestricting.
Live happily, not hating even those who are hostile. Live peacefully even amongst those that hate.
I manifested in a dreamlike way to dreamlike beings and gave a dreamlike Dharma, but in reality I never taught and never actually came.
Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.
The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.
Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.
