Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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Life at home is cramped and dirty, it is difficult to live a spiritual life completely, perfect and pure in all its parts while cabinned.
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(The real brahmin is the one who:) ... has crossed beyond duality ...knows no this shore, other shore, or both ...(is) settled in mind ... without inflowing thoughts ...is without attachment ...endures undisturbed criticism, ill-treatment and bonds, (and is) strong in patience ...(is) without anger, devout, upright, free from craving, disciplined and in his last body ...has experienced the end of his suffering here in this life, who has set down the burden, freed!
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Let a man overcome anger by love.
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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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Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.
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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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All things that are born must die. Work hard for your own freedom from sorrow.
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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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Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.
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Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
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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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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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See the truth, and you will see me.
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You are all Buddhas. There is nothing you need to achieve. Just open your eyes.
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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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Let him the intelligent man admonish, let him teach, let him forbid what is improper ! - he will be beloved of the good, by the bad he will be hated.
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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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Suffering is an illusion.
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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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One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment.
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Dispassion is the best of mental states. . . .
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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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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.