Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
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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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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
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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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If we destroy something around us we destroy ourselves. If we cheat another, we cheat ourselves.
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Consider Others as Yourself.
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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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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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Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.
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"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.
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Awakening is natural,delusion is not.
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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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No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.
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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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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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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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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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At the end of the way is freedom. Until then, patience.
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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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Be the witness of your thoughts.
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As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet.
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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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When we feel happy and peaceful, our happiness and peace radiates around us, and others can enjoy it as well. This is called 'the enjoyment of others of our body of bliss'.
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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.