Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening.
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
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What I know is like the leaves on that tree; what I teach is only a small part. But I offer it to all with an open hand. What do I not teach? Whatever is fascinating to discuss, divides people against each other, but has no bearing on putting an end to sorrow. What do I teach? Only what is necessary to take you to the other shore.
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One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.
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Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.
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For those who are ready the door to the deathless state is open. If you have ears give up the conditions that bind you and enter in.
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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
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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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Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.
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Pity arises when we are sorry for someone.Compassion is when we understand and help wisely.
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Your suffering is my suffering and your happiness is my happiness.
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Why cling to the pain and the wrongs of yesterday? Why hold on to the very things that keep you from hope and love.
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Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.
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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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When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
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Know well what holds you back, and what moves you forward.
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What's done to the children is done to society.
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The ocean, king of mountains and the mighty continents Are not heavy burdens to bear when compared To the burden of not repaying the world's kindness.
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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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Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does not put them into practice.
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As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.
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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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Do not have as friends harmful people, the wise person does not associate with the worst of people. Have as friends virtuous people, the wise person associates with the best of people.
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Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true liberation.