Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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If there is only empty space, with no suns nor planets in it, then space loses its substantiality.
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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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Little by little a person becomes evil, as a water pot is filled by drops of water... Little by little a person becomes good, as a water pot is filled by drops of water.
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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
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I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all are eliminated no desire arises.
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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.
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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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Only those who go where few have gone can see what few have seen.
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Love lasts when the relationship comes first.
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Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up.
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Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to the winning of knowledge and insight, to pleasant living in this very life, to the realization of the fruit of release by knowledge. What is that one thing: It is mindfulness centered on the body.
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Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts.
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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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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 only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful.
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I am always at the beginning.
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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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One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.
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Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck.
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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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Your suffering is my suffering and your happiness is my happiness.