Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.
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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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Release old concepts and energies that keep you in self-punishment patterns. Release old stories and create from a place of love and self-validation. You are worth it!
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For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.
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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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Will not be punished for your anger, your anger is the punishment.
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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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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
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Don't just do something, be there.
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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.
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Live every act fully, as if it were your last.
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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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Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
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Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.
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If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace.
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Beings are owners of their actions, heirs of their actions; they originate from their actions, are bound to their actions, have their actions as their refuge. It is action that distinguishes beings as inferior and superior.
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Just as you have come to know, the false discrimination of yourself, apply this mentally to all phenomena.
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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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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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For, owners of their deeds (karma) are the beings, heirs of their deeds; their deeds are the womb from which they sprang; with their deeds they are bound up; their deeds are their refuge. Whatever deeds they do-good or evil-of such they will be the heirs. And wherever the beings spring into existence, there their deeds will ripen; and wherever their deeds ripen, there they will earn the fruits of those deeds, be it in this life, or be it in the next life, or be it in any other future life.
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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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Love and serve the world through your work.
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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.