Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
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The world is on fire! And you are laughing? You are deep in the dark. Will you not ask for a light?
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Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of loving kindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.
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O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never forget, that compassion makes the world noble and beautiful.
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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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When you know for yourselves, 'These things are wholesome; these things are blameless; these things are praised by the wise; these things, if undertaken and practiced, lead to welfare and happiness,' then you should engage in them.
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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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Love and serve the world through your work.
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Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again.
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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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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.
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Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.
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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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Follow the way of virtue. Follow the way joyfully through this world and on beyond.
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When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.
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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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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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To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.
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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act.
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Kindnessis giving others happiness. Compassionis removing others' bitterness. Joyis freeing others from suffering.
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Dharma is not upheld by talking about it. Dharma is upheld by living in harmony with it.
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Let a man overcome anger by love.
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You are all Buddhas. There is nothing you need to achieve. Just open your eyes.