Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.
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'I've got children', 'I've got wealth.' This is the way a fool brings suffering on himself. He does not even own himself, so how can he have children or wealth?
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The worlds originate so that truth may come and dwell therein.
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The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.
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There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.
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The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.
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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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Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.
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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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Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
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If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.
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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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A virtuous man or woman who is determined to develop the Supreme Enlightened Mind, should thus develop it: I have to lead all living beings to put a stop to (reincarnation) and escape (suffering), and when they have been so led, not one of them in fact stops (reincarnating) or escapes suffering. Why? Because, if a Bodhisattva believes in the notion of an ego, a personality, or a living being, he is not a true Bodhisattva.
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Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.
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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.
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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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One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.
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He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.
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You are as the yellow leaf. The messengers of death are at hand. You are to travel far away. What will you take with you? You are the lamp To lighten the way. Then hurry, hurry. When your light shines.
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Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy.
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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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Persevere in thy quest and thou shalt find what thou seekest. Pursue thy aim unswervingly and thou shalt gain victory. Struggle earnestly and thou shalt triumph.
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The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
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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.