Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again.
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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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Attachment leads to suffering.
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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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The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.
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Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or enmity. Then as you stand or walk, Sit or lie down, As long as you are awake, Strive for this with a one-pointed mind; Your life will bring heaven to earth.
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So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that ancient path, that ancient road? It is just this Noble Eightfold Path; that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.
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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 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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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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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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If dresses would have qualified people, then whores would have ruled the world.
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When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.
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If the mind be fixed on the acquirement of any object, that object will be attained.
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You are the source of all purity and impurity. No one purifies another.
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Love and serve the world through your work.
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Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.
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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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In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view.
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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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Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench.
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Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled.
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Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith.