Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Winter always turns into Spring.
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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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Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men, embracing erroneous views, enter the woeful path.
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Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
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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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Rely on the teaching, not on the person; Rely on the meaning, not on the words; Rely on the definitive meaning, not on the provisional; Rely on your wisdom mind, not on your ordinary mind.
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The fiercest fire is hatred.
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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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Live joyfully, without desire.
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It is better to travel well then arrive.
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Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.
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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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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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Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others.
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He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release - the way of such a person is hard to follow, like the path of birds through the sky.
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Life is dear to all beings, they have the right to live the same that we do.
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Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.
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A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.
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Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow.
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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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He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.
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A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down.
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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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Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.