Gautama Buddha Quotes
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We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is around us, we are the same as everything.
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As soon as we think we are safe, something unexpected happens.
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When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.
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These are the roots of trees, O monks, these are empty huts. Meditate, monks, do not be negligent, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.
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Thousands upon thousands of lights is inferior to a light of heart.
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By three things the wise person may be known. What three? He sees a shortcoming as it is. When he sees it, he tries to correct it. And when another acknowledges a shortcoming, the wise one forgives it as he should.
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The deluding passions are inexhaustible. I vow to extinguish them all. The number of beings is endless. I vow to save them all. The Truth cannot be told. I vow to explain it. The Way which cannot be followed is unattainable. I vow to attain it.
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By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.
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If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.
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The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.
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He who, calm and clear as the moon, hankers no more for continuity-he is holy.
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As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth.
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Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.
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Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy; while giving, the mind of the giver is made peaceful; and having given, the mind of the giver is uplifted.
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Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.
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Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence... Enter into rapture and pleasure born of silence derived of concentration and awareness that is free from thought and fabrication.
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The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened.
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Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.
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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.
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Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.
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Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.
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How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are.
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When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.
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I manifested in a dreamlike way to dreamlike beings and gave a dreamlike Dharma, but in reality I never taught and never actually came.