Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Inflowing thoughts come to an end in those who are ever alert of mind, training themselves night and day, and ever intent on nirvana.
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My teaching is not a philosophy. It is the result of direct experience... My teaching is a means of practice, not something to hold onto or worship. My teaching is like a raft used to cross the river. Only a fool would carry the raft around after he had already reached the other shore of liberation.
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One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.
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After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.
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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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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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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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Look within, thou art the Buddha.
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The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.
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If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
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To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.
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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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One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried treasure. To one who follows such a wise man, it will be an advantage and not a disadvantage.
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Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.
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Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention
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What's done to the children is done to society.
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The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.
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Pity arises when we are sorry for someone.Compassion is when we understand and help wisely.
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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
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To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear.
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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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Life is a river always flowing. do not hold onto things. work hard.
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Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind.
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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.