Gautama Buddha Quotes
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A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.
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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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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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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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It is in this way that I went forth to teach.
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The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
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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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You are the source of all purity and impurity. No one purifies another.
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Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.
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If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it.
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Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear.
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Dispassion is the best of mental states. . . .
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Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.
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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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Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.
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In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony.
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Wherefore, brethren, thus must ye train yourselves : Liberation of the will through love will develop, we will often practice it, we will make it vehicle and base, take our stand upon it, store it up, throughly set it going.
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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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Giving the best to others are giving the best to us. The value of life is not based on how long we live. But, how much can we contribute to others in our society ?
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Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith.
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You yourself must earnestly practice, the enlightened ones only proclaim the path.
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Give thanks for what had been given to you, However little. Be pure, never falter.
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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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Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.