Gautama Buddha Quotes
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The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.
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After enlightenment, the laundry.
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Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.
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A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.
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Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views.
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He is able who think he is able.
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How does one stay mindful? Where feelings are known as they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. Thoughts are known as they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. Perceptions are known they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. This is how a monk stays awake.
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A good horse runs with seeing just the shadow of the whip.
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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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It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.
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By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.
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Know what you do not know.
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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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Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.
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When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.
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All things that are born must die. Work hard for your own freedom from sorrow.
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For the wakeful one whose mind is quiet, whose thoughts are undisturbed, who has relinquished judgement and blame, there is no fear.
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In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view.
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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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How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are.
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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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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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To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.
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You are the source of all purity and impurity. No one purifies another.