Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the way. But if you cannot find Friend or master to go with you, Travel on alone.
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Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.
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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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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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Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise.
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Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind.
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Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening.
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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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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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Wish I am free from barriers when I die, and Buddha will welcome me from far away.
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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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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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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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No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.
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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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Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow.
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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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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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You can search the entire universe and not find a single being more worthy of love than you.
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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
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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.
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All fear violence, all are afraid of death.
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As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village.