Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet.
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Do not believe anything because it is said by an authority, or if it is said to come from angels, or from Gods, or from an inspired source. Believe it only if you have explored it in your own heart and mind and body and found it to be true. Work out your own path, through diligence.
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Be the witness of your thoughts.
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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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The fiercest fire is hatred.
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No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.
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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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Right perspective is no perspective or all perspectives.
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Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.
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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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Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
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Awakening is natural,delusion is not.
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If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.
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Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything.
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Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow.
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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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It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is possible.
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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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Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.
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Those who, relying upon themselves only, not looking for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who will reach the top-most height.
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Mind is everything. What we think, we become.
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Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.
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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.