Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views.
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I call wise man who, while he is innocent , endures insults and blows with a patience equal to its strength.
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Kindnessis giving others happiness. Compassionis removing others' bitterness. Joyis freeing others from suffering.
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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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Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning and end. What if I searched for that which underlies all creation, that which is nirvana, the perfect freedom from unconditioned existence?
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Joyously participate in the sorrows of others.
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We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.
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A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world.
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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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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
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Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.
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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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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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After enlightenment, the laundry.
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First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. ...Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego.
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Treat others with respect. How you treat others will be how they treat you.
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If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.
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Why are you so sure parallel lines exist? Believe nothing, merely because you have been told it, or because it is traditional, or because you have imagined it.
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Don't believe a teaching just because you've heard it from a man who's supposed to be holy, or because it's contained in a book supposed to be holy, or because all your friends and neighbors believe it. But whatever you've observed and analyzed for yourself and found to be reasonable and good, then accept that and put it into practice.
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Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light.
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As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good.
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And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.
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Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.
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The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.