Gautama Buddha Quotes
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You are the source of all purity and impurity. No one purifies another.
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An pretend and evil friend is haughty to be feared than a unmanageable beast; a unmanageable beast may mouthful your build up, but an evil friend fortitude mouthful your intellect.
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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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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
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Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.
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In Aryans' Discipline, to build a friendship is to build wealth, To maintain a friendship is to maintain wealth and To end a friendship is to end wealth.
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Suffering is temporary, enlightenment is forever.
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Radiate boundless love towards the entire world - above, below, and across - unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.
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A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.
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To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.
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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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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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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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Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on the mental and physical aggregates.
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Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think.
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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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Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.
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A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.
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Joyously participate in the sorrows of others.
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It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.
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Giving the best to others are giving the best to us. The value of life is not based on how long we live. But, how much can we contribute to others in our society ?
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Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up.
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If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.
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Within this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained.