Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
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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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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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Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so, brahmins, is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering. One should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.
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If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
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Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation.
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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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Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.
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Perfect wisdom, Perfect tranquility,Perfect compassion,arise fromOur love,Our sincerity.Our understanding.
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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 happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.
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The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters.
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In compassion lies the world's true strength.
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Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.
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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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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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After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.
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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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Do not carry with you your mistakes. Do not carry your cares. Travel on alone. Like an elephant in the forest.
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There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant.
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There is no fire like passion: there is no evil and hatred.
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Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.
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Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable.
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The trouble is you think you have time.