Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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Love and serve the world through your work.
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Come and see...place no head above your own.
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Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.
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In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view.
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Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
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Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply at life as it is. In the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom. We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? The sage calls a person who knows how to dwell in mindfulness night and day, 'one who knows the better way to live alone.'
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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 the mind be fixed on the acquirement of any object, that object will be attained.
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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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You are the source of all purity and impurity. No one purifies another.
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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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As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births.
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If dresses would have qualified people, then whores would have ruled the world.
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When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed out, a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error.
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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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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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Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.
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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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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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Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.
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You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection.
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Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear.