Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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If you determine your course With force or speed, You miss the way of the dharma. Quietly consider What is right and what is wrong. Receiving all opinions equally, Without haste, wisely, Observe the dharma.
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Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn, unageing, und.
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Don't believe a teaching just because you've heard it from a man who's supposed to be holy, or because it's contained in a book supposed to be holy, or because all your friends and neighbors believe it. But whatever you've observed and analyzed for yourself and found to be reasonable and good, then accept that and put it into practice.
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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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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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Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening.
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Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances.
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War ends only when people love each other.
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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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Learn to ne happy with what you have.
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From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat.
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Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.
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Mind is everything. What we think, we become.
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Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true.
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Don't just do something, be there.
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Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable.
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Drink deeply. Live in serenity and joy.
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I have the body of a GOD.
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Let go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing You go beyond sorrow.
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Focusnot on the rudeness of others,not on what they've done or left undone,but on what you have done and have not doneyourself.
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Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.
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But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest.
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To have everything is to possess nothing.