Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Anyone who is not working toward the truth is missing the whole point of living.
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From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat.
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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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Thought-habits can harden into character. So watch your thoughts.
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A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
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Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.
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All have I overcome, all do I know. From all am I detached. All have I renounced. Wholly absorbed am I in ``the destruction of craving. Having comprehended all by myself, whom shall I call my teacher.
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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.
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To do a little good is more than to accomplish great conquests.
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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
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Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind.
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Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.
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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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It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes.
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The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail. Life as a human being is hard to sustain--as hard as it is for the dew to remain on the grass. But it is better to live a single day with honor than to live to 120 and die in disgrace.
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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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Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.
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Being able to make friends and keep them, welcoming others and sharing with them, a guide, philosopher and friend. One like this will be praised.
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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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Wish I am free from barriers when I die, and Buddha will welcome me from far away.
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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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It is impossible for a man who is bogged to extricate another who is bogged.
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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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Offend in neither word nor deed. Eat with moderation. Live in your heart. Seek the highest consciousness. Master yourself according to the law. This is the simple teaching of the awakened.