Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Please, try to eat a bit less meat, a bit more veggies from today. Let it become a habit gradually until not to eat meat anymore. Then, observe the changing of the body and spirit after eating veggies, fruits and grains.
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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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Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.
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To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.
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They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.
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Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.
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Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable.
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Doubt everything. Find your own light.
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May I hold myself in compassion. May I meet the suffering and ignorance of others with compassion.
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Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned.
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Will not be punished for your anger, your anger is the punishment.
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With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.
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Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.
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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.
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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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Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness.
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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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I am always at the beginning.
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Make of yourself a light.
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To do a little good is more than to accomplish great conquests.
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Love lasts when the relationship comes first.
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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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If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.
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Those who speak much are blamed, those who speak little are blamed. In this world there are none who are not blamed. Try not to blame.