Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.
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Do not breathing in the chronological, do not dream of the later, drain the intellect on the bring about twinkling.
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Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention
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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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The greatest victory is the one over oneself.
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The ocean, king of mountains and the mighty continents Are not heavy burdens to bear when compared To the burden of not repaying the world's kindness.
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Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true liberation.
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Yet the Teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be pure. At the end of the way is freedom.
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At the end of the way is freedom. Until then, patience.
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An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.
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Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.
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If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out.
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Teach you? I cannot teach you. Go; experience for yourself
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Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.
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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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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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I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.
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Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.
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Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.
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Do not say anything harsh: what you have said will be said back to you.
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To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.
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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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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.