Gautama Buddha Quotes
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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind. If a man speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering will follow him as the wheel of the cart follows the beast that draws the cart. If a man speaks or acts with a pure mind, joy follows him as his own shadow.
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Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.
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If you do not follow the right path, you will be lost.
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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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Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.
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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs,follow that wise man ; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him.
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Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings, perceptions, thoughts, and consciousness all interconnected. Investigating in this way, we come to realize that there is no me or mine in any one part, just as a sound does not belong to any one part of the lute.
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In Aryans' Discipline, to build a friendship is to build wealth, To maintain a friendship is to maintain wealth and To end a friendship is to end wealth.
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The world is continuous flux and is impermanent.
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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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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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Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he clings neither to sense-pleasures, nor does he cling to views, nor to precepts and vows, nor to a Self-doctrine. Not clinking, he is not disturbed; not disturbed, he attains individually nibbana.
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Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity so the wise man knows no hatred.
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By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified.
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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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Insignificant, is the loss of relatives, wealth and fame; The loss of wisdom is the greatest loss. Insignificant, is the increase of relatives, wealth and fame; The increase of wisdom is the highest gain. Therefore, you should train yourselves thus: "We will grow in the increase of wisdom" Thus you should train yourselves.
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Wherever we go, wherever we remain, the results of our actions follow us.
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The seeker is that which is being sought.
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The root of suffering is attachment.
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You too shall pass away. Knowing this, how can you quarrel?
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If you are poor, live wisely. If you have riches, live wisely. It is not your station in life but your heart that brings blessings.
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Wherever you live is your temple, if you treat it like one.
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Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others - he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.