Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will find yourself upon the one way, The way of wisdom.
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Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.
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Life is a river always flowing. do not hold onto things. work hard.
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The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable.
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Because not even the least Dharma is there found or got at. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlightenment'. Self-identical is that Dharma and nothing is therein at variance. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlighten'
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Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.
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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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Hatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. By love alone they cease. This is an ancient Law.
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Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.
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If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily.
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Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable.
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Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.
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Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.
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Pity arises when we are sorry for someone.Compassion is when we understand and help wisely.
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Make of yourself a light.
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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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As solid rock remains unmoved by the wind, so the wise remain unmoved by blame and praise.
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He that distributeth not That which he hath received-- His food, his drink, his sustenance-- Unto devotee, brahman, beggar, wayfarer-- Such a low man as he, they say, is like Unto a lack of rain.
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Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore.
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The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money.
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Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe from you childhood, but reason truth out, and after you have analyzed it, then if you find it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it and help others live up to it.
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Overcome your uncertainties and free yourself from dwelling on sorrow. When you delight in existence, you will awaken, and become a guide to those in need, revealing the path to many.
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Our mind is full of anger, jealousy and other negative feelings. Yet we do not realize that these are incompatible with inner peace and joy.
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Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!