Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.
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The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure.
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Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.
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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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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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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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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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Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.
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Sustaining a loving heart, even for a moment, makes one a spiritual being.
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Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.
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Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.
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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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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
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The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
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If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.
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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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Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.
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Why do what you will regret? Why bring tears upon yourself? Do only what you do not regret, And fill yourself with joy.
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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.
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Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.
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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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Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.
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When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace.