Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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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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I look upon the judgment of right and wrong as the serpentine dance of a dragon, and the rise and fall of beliefs as but traces left by the four seasons.
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Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive. Wonder of wonders.
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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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The greatest victory is the one over oneself.
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A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.
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The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.
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Wish I am free from barriers when I die, and Buddha will welcome me from far away.
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Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people will not see me.
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Those which arise dependently are free of inherent existence.
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Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.
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These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states of mind generated by these teachings, How much more so should you abandon bad states of mind!
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The trouble is you think you have time.
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He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.
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See the truth, and you will see me.
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If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.
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Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
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We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.
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May we live like the lotus, at home in muddy water.
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Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
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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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Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.