Gautama Buddha Quotes
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To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat... the food of the wise is that which is consumed by the sadhus holymen; it does not consist of meat... There may be some foolish people in the future who will say that I permitted meat-eating and that I partook of meat myself, but... meat-eating I have not permitted to anyone, I do not permit, I will not permit meat-eating in any form, in any manner and in any place; it is unconditionally prohibited for all.
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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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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.
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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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When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is.
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Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.
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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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To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.
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The whole secret of era is to specific no nervousness. Never nervousness what fortitude become of you, depend on no one. Free the twinkling you annul all help are you unrestricting.
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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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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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Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think.
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Within this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained.
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From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?
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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 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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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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Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion.
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Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky; the spittle will never reach the sky, but comes down on himself. Evil-doers again resemble a man who stirs the dust against the wind; the dust is never raised without doing him injury. Thus, the wise will never be hurt, but the curse is sure to destroy the evil-doers themselves.
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The world is full of suffering. Birth is suffering, decre- pitude is suffering, sickness and death are sufferings. To face a man of hatred is suffering, to be separated from a beloved one is suffering, to be vainly struggling to satisfy one's needs is suffering. In fact, life that is not free from desire and passion is always involved with suffering.
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He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.
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He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.
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Know what you do not know.
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Peace comes from within; do not try to seek it without.