Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.
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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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When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.
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Suffering is temporary, enlightenment is forever.
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If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.
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They were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia.
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By your own efforts waken yourself, watch yourself. And live joyfully.
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Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.
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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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In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.
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Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to the winning of knowledge and insight, to pleasant living in this very life, to the realization of the fruit of release by knowledge. What is that one thing: It is mindfulness centered on the body.
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Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
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I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.
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The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.
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Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.
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Rain falls, wind blows, plants bloom, leaves mature and are blown away; these phenomena are all interrelated with causes and conditions, are brought about by them, and disappear as the causes and conditions change.
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By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure.
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There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future.
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Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt.
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For he that is delighted by concord, And who abideth in the Law, Falleth not from Security.
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Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.
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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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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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So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, 'This contemplative is our teacher.' When you know for yourselves that, 'These qualities are unskillful; these qualities are blameworthy; these qualities are criticized by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to harm & to suffering' - then you should abandon them.