Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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I am always at the beginning.
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It is in this way that I went forth to teach.
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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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They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.
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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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A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.
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A person is ruined by taking the measure of other persons.
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Give thanks for what had been given to you, However little. Be pure, never falter.
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Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.
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By your own efforts waken yourself, watch yourself. And live joyfully.
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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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Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.
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(The real brahmin is the one who:) ... has crossed beyond duality ...knows no this shore, other shore, or both ...(is) settled in mind ... without inflowing thoughts ...is without attachment ...endures undisturbed criticism, ill-treatment and bonds, (and is) strong in patience ...(is) without anger, devout, upright, free from craving, disciplined and in his last body ...has experienced the end of his suffering here in this life, who has set down the burden, freed!
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Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth.
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Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.
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It is better to do nothing Than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself.
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The big belly can accommodate all kinds of things. The benevolence is never let a dust behind.
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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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There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.
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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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As solid rock remains unmoved by the wind, so the wise remain unmoved by blame and praise.
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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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If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.