Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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Do not be thoughtless, always be mindful, watch your thoughts! Draw yourself out of the path of evil, like an elephant sunk in mud.
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Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow.
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Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
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All that has been hidden is rising, there is no stopping it! These things you cannot hide: the sun, the moon, and TRUTH.
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Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
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Awakening is natural,delusion is not.
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"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.
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No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.
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Be the witness of your thoughts.
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Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.
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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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As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet.
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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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It is your mind that creates the world.
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If we destroy something around us we destroy ourselves. If we cheat another, we cheat ourselves.
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The more completely we give of ourselves, the more completely the world gives back to us.
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A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
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Consider Others as Yourself.
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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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When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the fruit, nirvana. One does not go to peace through any other cause.
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...One who possesses four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there. What four? Bodily good conduct, verbal good conduct, mental good conduct, and gratitude or thankfulness. One possessing these four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there.
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If a man who has committed many a misdemeanor does not repent and cleanse his heart of the evil, retribution will come upon his person as sure as the streams run into the ocean which becomes ever deeper and wider. If a man who has committed a misdemeanor come to the knowledge of it, reform himself, and practise goodness, the force of retribution will gradually exhaust itself as a disease gradually loses its baneful influence when the patient perspires.
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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.