Gautama Buddha Quotes
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I knew that most people never see this reality because they attach to the material aspect of the world. Illusions of self and other fill their vision. I also realized there are those with little dust limiting their vision.
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Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. It can be argued that peace and happiness comes from the subjective internalised perspective of realizing things could be worse and being grateful they aren't. The alternative view that peace and happiness comes from the objective external perspective of having more and better things than at present, while important for growth, can be a never-ending source of jealousy, dissatisfaction and disappointment. A balance of the two, where people are grateful for what they have while striving for more seems the best blended perspective.
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May we live like the lotus, at home in muddy water.
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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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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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A great gift - a gift of Dharma conquers all gifts.
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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
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Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.
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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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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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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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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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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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Joyously participate in the sorrows of others.
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For he that is delighted by concord, And who abideth in the Law, Falleth not from Security.
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After enlightenment, the laundry.
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Attachment leads to suffering.
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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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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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To eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat.
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We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.
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Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.
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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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In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.