Gautama Buddha Quotes
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A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.
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May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
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The kingdom of heaven is closer than the brow above the eye but mankind does not see it.
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Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.
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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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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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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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Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench.
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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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The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.
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Let him the intelligent man admonish, let him teach, let him forbid what is improper ! - he will be beloved of the good, by the bad he will be hated.
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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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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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Even if everyone elseIs not doing good,I alone will.Even if everyone elseis doing wrong,I alone will not.
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There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now.
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It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.
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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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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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If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings--this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue.
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Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.
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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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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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Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.
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Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom.