Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.
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Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up the world.
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Believe nothing, No matter where you read it, Or who has said it, Not even if I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own common sense.
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In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?
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Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up and down, the symbol of this continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering, and dying. (It) is constantly changing from moment to moment, (as lives) follow continuously one upon the other through inconceivable periods of time. Of this Samsara, a single lifetime constitutes only a vanishingly tiny fraction.
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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.
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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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Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now.
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Your actions are your only true belongings.
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You must take action yourself, for Buddhas only teach the way.
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A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.
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After enlightenment, the laundry.
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Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.
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Let your mind become clear like a still forest pool.
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Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion.
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Wherefore, brethren, thus must ye train yourselves : Liberation of the will through love will develop, we will often practice it, we will make it vehicle and base, take our stand upon it, store it up, throughly set it going.
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Men give up one thing to take up another, but in spite of numerous changes they do not find peace. They are no better than monkeys who let go one bough to take hold of another, only to let it go again.
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Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.
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But if you miss it, you will next be confronted with the angry deities, ... threatening you and barring your passage ... because you turned a deaf ear to the saving truths of religion. All these forms are strange to you, ... they terrify you, ... and yet it is you who have created them. Do not give in to your fright, ... flee them not! They are but ... the contents of your own mind... If at this point you should manage to understand that, ... and you will find yourself in a paradise among the angels.
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Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.
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Give the people - confidence. Give the people - delight. Give the people - hope. Give the people - the best.
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
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The world is continuous flux and is impermanent.