Gautama Buddha Quotes
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To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear.
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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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Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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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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If beings knew, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they would not eat without having given.
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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.
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There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river.
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A person is ruined by taking the measure of other persons.
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Life is uncertain; death is certain.
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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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Why are you so sure parallel lines exist? Believe nothing, merely because you have been told it, or because it is traditional, or because you have imagined it.
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Come and see...place no head above your own.
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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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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 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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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.
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There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future.
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Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.
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In compassion lies the world's true strength.
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Make of yourself a light.
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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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When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
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How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the way Beyond the world. Look within - The rising and the falling.
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Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.