Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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Awakening is natural,delusion is not.
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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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To know and not to use is not yet to know!
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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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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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It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes.
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Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.
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I know what I gave them; I don't know what they received.
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Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
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Be a light unto yourself.
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Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow.
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Joy and openness come from our own contented heart.
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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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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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It is because of their tranquil thoughts That creatures go to prosperity.
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We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis.
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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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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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I, ever knowing the living beings Who tread the Path and those who do not In response to those who may be saved Preach to them a variety of dharmas, Each time having this thought: 'How may I cause the beings To contrive to enter the Unexcelled Path and quickly to perfect the Buddha-body?'
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Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.
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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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Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.
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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.