Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.
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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.
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Love is a gift of one's inner most soul to another so both can be whole.
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Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances.
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War ends only when people love each other.
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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
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Happy are those who have overcome their egos; happy are those who have attained peace; happy are those who have found the Truth.
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Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.
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All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.
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Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.
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Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you to Nirvana.
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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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It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes.
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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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They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.
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Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind.
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For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.
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Conquer a liar with truth.
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No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.
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Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.
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Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.
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To do a little good is more than to accomplish great conquests.
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By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we acquire great treasures.
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The Four Reliances. First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words; Second, rely on the teachings, not on the personality of the teacher; Third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial interpretation; And fourth, rely on the essence of your pure Wisdom Mind, not on judgmental perceptions.