Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.
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You can search the entire universe and not find a single being more worthy of love than you.
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If there be one righteous person, the rain falls for his sake.
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If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart, great indeed is this Way.
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Do not believe anything on the mere authority of teachers or priests. Accept as true and as the guide to your life only that which accords with your own reason and experience, after thorough investigation. Accept only that which contributes to the well-being of yourself and others.
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If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out.
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By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes.
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Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.
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War ends only when people love each other.
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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.
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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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The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.
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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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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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Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!
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Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not carried out by the speaker.
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Conquer a liar with truth.
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It is impossible for a man who is bogged to extricate another who is bogged.
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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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Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stifled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal.
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Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue.
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already 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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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.