Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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For the wakeful one whose mind is quiet, whose thoughts are undisturbed, who has relinquished judgement and blame, there is no fear.
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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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One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.
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Life is uncertain; death is certain.
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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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Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.
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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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When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself.
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The world is continuous flux and is impermanent.
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If you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself to be pleased by good. Accumulating good is joyful.
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Treat others with respect. How you treat others will be how they treat you.
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All things that are born must die. Work hard for your own freedom from sorrow.
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Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel. Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.
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Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone besides yourselves. And those, Ananda, who either now or after I am dead, Shall be a lamp unto themselves, Shall betake themselves as no external refuge, But holding fast to the truth as their lamp, Holding fast to the truth as their refuge, Shall not look for refuge to anyone else besides themselves, It is they who shall reach to the very topmost height; But they must be anxious to learn.
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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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Dharma is not upheld by talking about it. Dharma is upheld by living in harmony with it.
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Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.
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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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Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.
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If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it.
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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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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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Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness.