Gautama Buddha Quotes
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If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.
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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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Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are set up through the power of thought. Through the power of conceptuality the world is established.
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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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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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Like the mother of the world, touch each being as your beloved child.
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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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By your own efforts waken yourself, watch yourself. And live joyfully.
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Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!
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If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace.
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The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable.
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Never have anything to do with likes and dislikes. The absence of what one likes is painful, as is the presence of what one dislikes. Therefore don't take a liking to anything. To lose what one likes is hard, but there are no bonds for those who have no likes and dislikes. From preference arises sorrow, from preference arises fear, but he who is freed from preference has no sorrow and certainly no fear.
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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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He is able who think he is able.
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Love lasts when the relationship comes first.
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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
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When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.
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Speak the truth. Give whatever you can. Never be angry. These three steps will lead you Into the presence of the gods.
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Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.
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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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Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water.
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How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it.
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Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind well controlled achieves peace and happiness.
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May everyone be happy and safe, and may their hearts be filled with joy.