Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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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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Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind.
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Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.
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It is better to do nothing Than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself.
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Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
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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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If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.
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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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To do a little good is more than to accomplish great conquests.
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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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From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry.
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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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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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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.
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For those who are ready the door to the deathless state is open. If you have ears give up the conditions that bind you and enter in.
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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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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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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
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It takes hundred of years sitting together in the same boat. It takes thousand of years sharing the same bed with. It calls : the predestined affinity.
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It is because of their tranquil thoughts That creatures go to prosperity.
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Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stifled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal.
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You can search the entire universe and not find a single being more worthy of love than you.