Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on the mental and physical aggregates.
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The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.
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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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The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure.
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He is able who think he is able.
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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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You are the source of all purity and impurity. No one purifies another.
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The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.
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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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Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.
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Joyously participate in the sorrows of others.
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Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.
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The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.
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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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There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future.
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When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is.
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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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As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births.
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I manifested in a dreamlike way to dreamlike beings and gave a dreamlike Dharma, but in reality I never taught and never actually came.
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One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you a teacher?" the student persisted. "No, I am not a teacher." "Then what are you?" asked the student exasperated. "I am awake," Buddha replied.
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Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.
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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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May all that have life be delivered from suffering.