Gautama Buddha Quotes
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When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace.
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Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.
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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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Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench.
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Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.
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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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Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.
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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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More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.
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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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The good shine from afar Like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don't appear Even when near, Like arrows shot into the night.
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Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.
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Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.
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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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If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.
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And more importantly - what we have chosen to do.
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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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Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.
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Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.
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Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world.
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One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.
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If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.
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When you know for yourselves, 'These things are wholesome; these things are blameless; these things are praised by the wise; these things, if undertaken and practiced, lead to welfare and happiness,' then you should engage in them.
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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.