Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one's mind remains unshaken, sorrow-less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare.
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Dispassion is the best of mental states. . . .
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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 is grateful doesn't suffer.
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The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.
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All created things are impermanent. Strive diligently.
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Let us live most happily, free from hatred in the midst of the hateful; Let us remain free from hatred in the midst of people who hate.
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Hatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. By love alone they cease. This is an ancient Law.
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A person is ruined by taking the measure of other persons.
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How deeply did you learn to let go?
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Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.
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To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.
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I am always at the beginning.
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Rely on the teaching, not on the person; Rely on the meaning, not on the words; Rely on the definitive meaning, not on the provisional; Rely on your wisdom mind, not on your ordinary mind.
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Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.
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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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Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable.
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Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.
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An pretend and evil friend is haughty to be feared than a unmanageable beast; a unmanageable beast may mouthful your build up, but an evil friend fortitude mouthful your intellect.
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Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue.
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Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel. Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.
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If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.
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Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.