Gautama Buddha Quotes
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In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view.
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You are all Buddhas. There is nothing you need to achieve. Just open your eyes.
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Let your mind become clear like a still forest pool.
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If you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself to be pleased by good. Accumulating good is joyful.
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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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Please, try to eat a bit less meat, a bit more veggies from today. Let it become a habit gradually until not to eat meat anymore. Then, observe the changing of the body and spirit after eating veggies, fruits and grains.
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Let go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing You go beyond sorrow.
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All things that are born must die. Work hard for your own freedom from sorrow.
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Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness.
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Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel. Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.
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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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Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.
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Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.
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Within this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained.
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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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Let the disciple cultivate love without measure towards all beings. Let him cultivate towards the whole world, above, below, around, a heart of love unstinted....For in all the world this state of heart is best.
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Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.
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The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions.
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May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to be afraid, and may those bound be free. May the powerless find power, and may people think of befriending each other. May those who find themselves in trackless, fearful wilderness- the children, the aged, the unprotected- be guarded by beneficent celestials, and may they swiftly attain Buddhahood.
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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.
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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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Know what you do not know.
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Suffering is an illusion.
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I teach one thing and one only: that is, suffering and the end of suffering.