Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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Give the people - confidence. Give the people - delight. Give the people - hope. Give the people - the best.
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The good shine from afar Like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don't appear Even when near, Like arrows shot into the night.
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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
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Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
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Doubt everything. Find your own light.
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When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.
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A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.
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But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest.
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Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.
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The greatest victory is the one over oneself.
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A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world.
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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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Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant.
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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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Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning and end. What if I searched for that which underlies all creation, that which is nirvana, the perfect freedom from unconditioned existence?
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To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.
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To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.
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Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
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Suffering is an illusion.
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I call wise man who, while he is innocent , endures insults and blows with a patience equal to its strength.
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Let a man overcome anger by love.
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Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.