Gautama Buddha Quotes
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The worlds originate so that truth may come and dwell therein.
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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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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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I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.
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It is within this fathoms-long carcass, with its mind and its notions, that I declare there is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world and the path leading to the cessation of the world.
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Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.
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If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?
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To stop suffering, stop greediness. Greediness is a source of suffering.
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Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor.
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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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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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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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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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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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Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.
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Life is uncertain; death is certain.
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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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Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.
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These are the roots of trees, O monks, these are empty huts. Meditate, monks, do not be negligent, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.
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Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt.
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Don't believe a teaching just because you've heard it from a man who's supposed to be holy, or because it's contained in a book supposed to be holy, or because all your friends and neighbors believe it. But whatever you've observed and analyzed for yourself and found to be reasonable and good, then accept that and put it into practice.
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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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In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the difference. Her concern concentrates on one thing just like the Buddhist practice of concentration. She thinks of nothing but her child, which is similar to Buddhist compassion. That must be why, although she created no other causes to bring about it, she was reborn in the Brahma heaven.
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All beings wish for happiness, so extend your compassion to all.