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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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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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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One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment.
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You are all Buddhas. There is nothing you need to achieve. Just open your eyes.
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Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.
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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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Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.
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There is nothing like lust. Lust may be said to be the most powerful passion. Fortunately, we have but one thing which is more powerful. If the thirst for truth were weaker than passion, how many of us in the world would be able to follow the way of righteous?
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I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate, independent of words and transmitted beyond doctrine. This I have entrusted to Mahakashyapa.
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And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.
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Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.
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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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Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!
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Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
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As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good.
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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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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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Drink deeply. Live in serenity and joy.
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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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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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Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.
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A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.