Gautama Buddha Quotes
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All the holy words you read and all the holy words you speak are as nothing if you do not act upon them. Even if you read little and say little but live the right way, forsaking craving, hatred and delusion, you will know the truth and find calmness and will show others the path.
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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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Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.
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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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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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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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Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising of the noble eightfold path.
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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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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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Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind.
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The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness.
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Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non-virtuous things. Once you have discovered for yourself give up the bad and embrace the good.
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Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening.
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All fear violence, all are afraid of death.
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War ends only when people love each other.
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Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow.
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There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize nirvana. This is to be mindful.
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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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All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives, you are Buddha.
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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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What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.
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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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My teaching is not a philosophy. It is the result of direct experience... My teaching is a means of practice, not something to hold onto or worship. My teaching is like a raft used to cross the river. Only a fool would carry the raft around after he had already reached the other shore of liberation.
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His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.