Gautama Buddha Quotes
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When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is.
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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 the mind be fixed on the acquirement of any object, that object will be attained.
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There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.
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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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Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.
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Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.
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By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure.
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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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For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.
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There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future.
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Why are you so sure parallel lines exist? Believe nothing, merely because you have been told it, or because it is traditional, or because you have imagined it.
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If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.
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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 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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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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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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Whatever suffering there is in this world,all arises from desiring only myself to be happy.And whatever joy there is in this world,all arises from desiring to share my happiness with everyone.
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I teach one thing and one only: that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
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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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Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.
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Know what you do not know.
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When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace.
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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.