Gautama Buddha Quotes
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A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering.
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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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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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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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I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind. The mind when undeveloped and uncultivated entails great suffering.
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Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.
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I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.
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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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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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O seeker! Rely on nothing until you want nothing.
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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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If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?
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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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Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.
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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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One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.
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When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.
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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
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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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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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The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.
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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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As soon as we think we are safe, something unexpected happens.