Gautama Buddha Quotes
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To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.
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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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Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.
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He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is truly called one who is bound upstream.
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You yourself must earnestly practice, the enlightened ones only proclaim the path.
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May we live like the lotus, at home in muddy water.
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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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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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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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Kindnessis giving others happiness. Compassionis removing others' bitterness. Joyis freeing others from suffering.
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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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Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!
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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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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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Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given.
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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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To eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat.
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I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.
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Peace comes from within; do not try to seek it without.
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Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think.
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Know what you do not know.
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It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear.
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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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One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment.