Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything.
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At the end of the way is freedom. Until then, patience.
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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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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.
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Right perspective is no perspective or all perspectives.
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Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.
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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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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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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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Teach you? I cannot teach you. Go; experience for yourself
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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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One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.
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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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You, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and respect.
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It is easy to see the faults of others... it is hard to see our own.
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Joy and openness come from our own contented heart.
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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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Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.
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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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It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is possible.