Gautama Buddha Quotes
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May I hold myself in compassion. May I meet the suffering and ignorance of others with compassion.
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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
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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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In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create disticntions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
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Peace comes from within; do not try to seek it without.
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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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Release old concepts and energies that keep you in self-punishment patterns. Release old stories and create from a place of love and self-validation. You are worth it!
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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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One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment.
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You yourself must earnestly practice, the enlightened ones only proclaim the path.
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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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Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think.
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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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Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.
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See the truth, and you will see me.
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If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?
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How deeply did you learn to 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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He who slings mud loses ground.
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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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Therefore, do not eat meat which will cause terror among people, because it hinders the truth of emancipation; not to eat meat? this is the mark of the wise.
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Follow the way of virtue. Follow the way joyfully through this world and on beyond.
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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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Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.