Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Dignity and quiet joy in all that we do are the expression of perfect concentration and perfect wisdom.
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The hunger of passions is the greatest disease.
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This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world: Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream; Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream. So is all conditioned existence to be seen.
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To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.
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Therefore, do not eat meat which will cause terror among people, because it hinders the truth of emancipation; not to eat meat? this is the mark of the wise.
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If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.
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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.
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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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The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.
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O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never forget, that compassion makes the world noble and beautiful.
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Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts.
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If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it.
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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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Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does not put them into practice.
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Be it known that Men of dull faculties and slight wisdom, They who cling proudly to signs, Cannot believe in this Dharma. Now I, joyfully and fearlessly, In the midst of the bodhisattvas Frankly casting aside my expedient devices, Merely preach the Unexcelled Path.
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The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful.
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Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.
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When giving to others do not linger on thoughts of a giving, what was given, or the one who has received.
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Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just like these, as the self-nature of things can not exist alone, they are called non-substantial.
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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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Look within, thou art the Buddha.
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As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.
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When you come upon a path that brings benefit and happiness to all, follow this course as the moon journeys through the stars.
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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.