Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now.
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The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, only you're the one who gets burned.
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Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.
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Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy.
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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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Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.
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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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Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do.
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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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In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony.
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Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.
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As soon as we think we are safe, something unexpected happens.
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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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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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Believe nothing, No matter where you read it, Or who has said it, Not even if I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own common sense.
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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
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May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
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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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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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Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views.
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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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But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.
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Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little.