Gautama Buddha Quotes
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He is able who think he is able.
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You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.
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Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy; while giving, the mind of the giver is made peaceful; and having given, the mind of the giver is uplifted.
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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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When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is.
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Radiate boundless love towards the entire world - above, below, and across - unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.
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Know what you do not know.
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Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy.
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How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are.
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The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions.
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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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Love and serve the world through your work.
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Attachment leads to suffering.
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If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner.
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The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.
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Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.
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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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From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?
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To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
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There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.
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May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to be afraid, and may those bound be free. May the powerless find power, and may people think of befriending each other. May those who find themselves in trackless, fearful wilderness- the children, the aged, the unprotected- be guarded by beneficent celestials, and may they swiftly attain Buddhahood.
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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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When ignorant people see someone who is dead, they are disgusted and horrified, even thought they too will be dead some day. I thought to myself: I don't want to be like the ignorant people. After then, I couldn't feel the usual intoxication with life anymore.
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Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.