Gautama Buddha Quotes
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One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.
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If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.
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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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Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride.
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Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.
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Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.
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When words are both true and kind, they can change 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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Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.
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The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure.
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He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.
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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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When you have great joy, you will become Buddhas!
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Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do.
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When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.
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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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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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Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.
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Life is uncertain; death is certain.
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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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Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.
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The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
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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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Pain is certain, suffering is optional.