Gautama Buddha Quotes
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There are having flowers in Spring, breezes in Summer, moon in Autumn, snows in Winter. If there is nothing worrying over you, it will be the best seasons at all times.
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Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.
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Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned.
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Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.
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The fiercest fire is hatred.
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What's done to the children is done to society.
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Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.
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To do a little good is more than to accomplish great conquests.
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When we feel happy and peaceful, our happiness and peace radiates around us, and others can enjoy it as well. This is called 'the enjoyment of others of our body of bliss'.
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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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The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.
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When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known.
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All fear violence, all are afraid of death.
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Live joyfully, without desire.
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Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.
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How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it.
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Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of loving kindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.
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An evil deed, like fresh milk, does not go bad suddenly. Smouldering, like fire covered by ashes, the evil deed follows the fool.
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Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already.
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Winter always turns into Spring.
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The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.
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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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Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
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Right perspective is no perspective or all perspectives.