Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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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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The more completely we give of ourselves, the more completely the world gives back to us.
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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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At the end of the way is freedom. Until then, patience.
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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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No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.
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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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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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Consider Others as Yourself.
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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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Right perspective is no perspective or all perspectives.
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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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Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything.
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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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"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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Joy and openness come from our own contented heart.
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Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.
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The man that is dominated by Anger Doth not know what is seemly and seeth not the Law; That man whom Hate doth accompany, Becometh like unto murky darkness.
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I know what I gave them; I don't know what they received.
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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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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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It is easy to see the faults of others... it is hard to see our own.