Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given.
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Wherever we go, wherever we remain, the results of our actions follow us.
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The world is continuous flux and is impermanent.
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To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.
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The seeker is that which is being sought.
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In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony.
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To eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat.
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O seeker! Rely on nothing until you want nothing.
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There are no chains like hate...dwelling on your brother's faults multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey.
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Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion.
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But if you miss it, you will next be confronted with the angry deities, ... threatening you and barring your passage ... because you turned a deaf ear to the saving truths of religion. All these forms are strange to you, ... they terrify you, ... and yet it is you who have created them. Do not give in to your fright, ... flee them not! They are but ... the contents of your own mind... If at this point you should manage to understand that, ... and you will find yourself in a paradise among the angels.
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When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you look upon the lost like one that stands on a mountain sees those that stand upon the plain.
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By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified.
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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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There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.
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Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do.
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I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.
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This is the entire spiritual life, Ananda, that is, good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship. When a monk has a good friend, a good companion, a good comrade, it is to be expected that he will develop and cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path.
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Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If people speak or act with evil thoughts, pain follows them. If people speak or act with pure thoughts, happiness follows them, like a shadow that never leaves them.
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The worlds originate so that truth may come and dwell therein.
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Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn, unageing, und.
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In what is seen, there should be just the seen; In what is heard, there should be just the heard; In what is sensed, there should be just the sensed; In what is thought, there should be just the thought. He should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should he incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak in the world.
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Through effort you will cross any raging flood, through energy you will pass any sorrow.