Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
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You are all Buddhas. There is nothing you need to achieve. Just open your eyes.
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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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From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry.
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He is able who think he is able.
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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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Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.
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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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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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It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes.
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Believe there is good in the world.
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To have everything is to possess nothing.
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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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Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow.
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If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the way. But if you cannot find Friend or master to go with you, Travel on alone.
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Learn to ne happy with what you have.
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Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree.
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This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world: Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream; Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream. So is all conditioned existence to be seen.
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When you realize how perfect or at least better than it could be everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.
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The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the Truth beats all other joys, and the cessation of desire conquers all suffering.
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If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.
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Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances.
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What is this world condition? Body is the world condition. And with body and form goes feeling, perception, consciousness, and all the activities throughout the world. The arising of form and the ceasing of form-everything that has been heard, sensed, and known, sought after and reached by the mind-all this is the embodied world, to be penetrated and realized.