Gautama Buddha Quotes
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If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.
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It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.
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Your actions are your only true belongings.
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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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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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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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Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.
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Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.
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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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And more importantly - what we have chosen to do.
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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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More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.
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But if you miss it, you will next be confronted with the angry deities, ... threatening you and barring your passage ... because you turned a deaf ear to the saving truths of religion. All these forms are strange to you, ... they terrify you, ... and yet it is you who have created them. Do not give in to your fright, ... flee them not! They are but ... the contents of your own mind... If at this point you should manage to understand that, ... and you will find yourself in a paradise among the angels.
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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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So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that ancient path, that ancient road? It is just this Noble Eightfold Path; that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.
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When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is.
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Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity so the wise man knows no hatred.
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The root of suffering is attachment.
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For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.
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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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For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say, an island exists where there is no place for impediments, no place for clinging: the island of no going beyond. I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.
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All of you knowing now, Tthat the Buddhas, the Teachers of the Ages, In accord with what is peculiarly appropriate, have recourse to expedient devices, Need have no more doubts or uncertainties. Your hearts shall give rise to great joy, Since you know that you yourselves Shall become Buddhas.
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These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states of mind generated by these teachings, How much more so should you abandon bad states of mind!
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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.