Gautama Buddha Quotes
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The world is continuous flux and is impermanent.
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Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.
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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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When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is.
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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 no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling of raindrops a jar of water is filled, so the wise person becomes full of good, even though he or she collects it little by little.
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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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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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One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.
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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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Your actions are your only true belongings.
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
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When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.
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There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future.
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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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The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.
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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.
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He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.
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Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful.
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To be concerned with the issue; soul versus non-soul, is to be in bondage to craving for becoming and non-becoming.
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When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace.
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Come and see...place no head above your own.
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The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment.
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If the mind be fixed on the acquirement of any object, that object will be attained.