Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Awakening is natural,delusion is not.
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Know well what holds you back, and what moves you forward.
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It is better to travel well then arrive.
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This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?
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I, ever knowing the living beings Who tread the Path and those who do not In response to those who may be saved Preach to them a variety of dharmas, Each time having this thought: 'How may I cause the beings To contrive to enter the Unexcelled Path and quickly to perfect the Buddha-body?'
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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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There are three ways to correct our faults:We can change through behavior We can change through understanding We can change heart.
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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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Mind is everything. What we think, we become.
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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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Right perspective is no perspective or all perspectives.
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Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
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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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Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind.
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To do a little good is more than to accomplish great conquests.
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You, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and respect.
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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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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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They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.
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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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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.
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Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.
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Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.
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Look upon him who shows you your faults as a revealer of treasure: seek his company who checks and chides you, the sage who is wise in reproof: it fares well and not ill with him who seeks such company.