Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given.
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He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.
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There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.
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Holding on to anger is like poisoning yourself and hoping someone else will die.
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The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure.
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How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are.
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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. - Buddha No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
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The world is continuous flux and is impermanent.
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Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course.
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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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Sustaining a loving heart, even for a moment, makes one a spiritual being.
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Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.
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If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.
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Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy; while giving, the mind of the giver is made peaceful; and having given, the mind of the giver is uplifted.
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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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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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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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May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
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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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Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.
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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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The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
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Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.
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A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.