Gautama Buddha Quotes
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If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company.
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Consider Others as Yourself.
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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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An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.
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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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If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.
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At the end of the way is freedom. Until then, patience.
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My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.
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Thought-habits can harden into character. So watch your thoughts.
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Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others.
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Pain is the outcome of sin.
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The wind cannot overturn a mountain. Temptation cannot touch the man Who is awake, strong and humble, Who masters hiself and minds the law.
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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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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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Freed by full realization and at peace, the mind of such a man is at peace, and his speech and action peaceful. He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.
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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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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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I know what I gave them; I don't know what they received.
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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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"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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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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Whatever grounds there are for making merit productive of a future birth, all these do not equal a sixteenth part of the liberation of mind by loving-kindness. The liberation of mind by loving-kindness surpasses them and shines forth, bright and brilliant.
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Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.
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He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain.