Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
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Be the witness of your thoughts.
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There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize nirvana. This is to be mindful.
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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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A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.
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"All is passing". When one realises this, he sits loose to this world of sorrow : This is the way of purity.
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The more completely we give of ourselves, the more completely the world gives back to us.
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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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A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing.
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Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.
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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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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.
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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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...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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As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet.
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Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.
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Do not accept what you hear by report, do not accept tradition, do not accept a statement because it is found in our books, nor because it is in accord with your belief, nor because it is the saying of your teacher. Be lamps unto yourselves. Those who, either now or after I am dead, shall rely upon themselves only and not look for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who shall reach the topmost height.
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To know and not to use is not yet to know!
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At the end of the way is freedom. Until then, patience.
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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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In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.
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Do not breathing in the chronological, do not dream of the later, drain the intellect on the bring about twinkling.