Gautama Buddha Quotes
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If you do not follow the right path, you will be lost.
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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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Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
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Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up and down, the symbol of this continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering, and dying. (It) is constantly changing from moment to moment, (as lives) follow continuously one upon the other through inconceivable periods of time. Of this Samsara, a single lifetime constitutes only a vanishingly tiny fraction.
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When you have great joy, you will become Buddhas!
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He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.
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Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply at life as it is. In the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom. We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? The sage calls a person who knows how to dwell in mindfulness night and day, 'one who knows the better way to live alone.'
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If you find someone with wisdom, good judgment, and good actions; make him a companion.
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One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should think it was my doing. They should accept my authority in all matters great or small." This is a fool's way of thinking. His self-seeking and conceit just increase.
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If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner.
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All beings wish for happiness, so extend your compassion to all.
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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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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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When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.
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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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Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.
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Men give up one thing to take up another, but in spite of numerous changes they do not find peace. They are no better than monkeys who let go one bough to take hold of another, only to let it go again.
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Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.
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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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There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now.
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In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create disticntions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
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On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.
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May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
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Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do.