Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.
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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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The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.
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Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.
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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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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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When you have great joy, you will become Buddhas!
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All beings wish for happiness, so extend your compassion to all.
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Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do.
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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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One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.
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Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect.
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Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.
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When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace.
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Live like a mighty river.
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When an evil-doer, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maliciously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him, for the evil-doer is insulting himself by trying to insult you.
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Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled.
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The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.
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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.
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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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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.
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Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.
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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.