Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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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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The seeker is that which is being sought.
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The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.
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We will be thankful and grateful. Not even the last thing that is done for us shall be forgotten.
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For one who is a learner and who has not yet come to master their mind, but who dwells aspiring for peace from that which binds, making it a matter concerning himself, I know of no other thing as helpful as giving close attention to the mind.
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I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.
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Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.
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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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To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.
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Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.
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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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You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.
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Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
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The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.
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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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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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Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.
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If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?
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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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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
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As soon as we think we are safe, something unexpected happens.
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Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.