Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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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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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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To stop suffering, stop greediness. Greediness is a source of suffering.
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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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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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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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Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.
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Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.
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All beings wish for happiness, so extend your compassion to all.
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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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Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful.
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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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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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Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.
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The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.
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He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.
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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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Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks.
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If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?
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The worlds originate so that truth may come and dwell therein.
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If people speak or act with evil thoughts, pain follows them. If people speak or act with pure thoughts, happiness follows them, like a shadow that never leaves them.
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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.