Gautama Buddha Quotes
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He who slings mud loses ground.
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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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He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.
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To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.
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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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It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.
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Let us live in joy, never falling sick like those who hate us. Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among those who hate.
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If people speak or act with evil thoughts, pain follows them. If people speak or act with pure thoughts, happiness follows them, like a shadow that never leaves them.
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If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever.
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You are all Buddhas. There is nothing you need to achieve. Just open your eyes.
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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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If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.
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The world is on fire! And you are laughing? You are deep in the dark. Will you not ask for a light?
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One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.
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A person is ruined by taking the measure of other persons.
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Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease.
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The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the Truth beats all other joys, and the cessation of desire conquers all suffering.
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The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false.
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Be it known that Men of dull faculties and slight wisdom, They who cling proudly to signs, Cannot believe in this Dharma. Now I, joyfully and fearlessly, In the midst of the bodhisattvas Frankly casting aside my expedient devices, Merely preach the Unexcelled Path.
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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
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One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.
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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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Few are those among men who have crossed over to the other shore, while the rest of mankind runs along the bank. However those who follow the principles of the well-taught Truth will cross over to the other shore, out of the dominion of Death, hard though it is to escape.
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Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up.