Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.
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He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.
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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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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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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
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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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Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.
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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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Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench.
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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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For he that is delighted by concord, And who abideth in the Law, Falleth not from Security.
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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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That which goeth up must needs come down; and that which is down must needs go up. But Brahma has ordained that the that that goeth up is seldom the same as the that that hath gone down.
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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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In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water to nourish the see we have planted; in the end, compassion is like the warmth of the sun that brings the fruit to ripening.
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
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If you want to understand the causes that existed in the past, look at the results as they are manifested in the present. And if you want to understand what results will be manifested in the future, look at the causes that exist in the present.
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When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself.
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Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.
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For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say, an island exists where there is no place for impediments, no place for clinging: the island of no going beyond. I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.
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Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.
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And more importantly - what we have chosen to do.
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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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It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.