Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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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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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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Yet the Teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be pure. At the end of the way is freedom.
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It is because of their tranquil thoughts That creatures go to prosperity.
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An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.
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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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Do not say anything harsh: what you have said will be said back to you.
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It is impossible to underestimate the significance of your today's choices.
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Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.
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I will teach you the Truth and the Path leading to the Truth.
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Mindfulness of the body leads to nirvana.
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I know what I gave them; I don't know what they received.
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Be a light unto yourself.
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Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.
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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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It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind.
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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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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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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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Though thousand times a thousand in battle one may conquer, yet should one conquer just oneself, one is the greatest conqueror.
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Dependent Origination is the teaching (that life) is not the mere play of blind chance, but has an existence that is dependent upon conditions. That, precisely with the removal of these conditions, those things that have arisen in dependence upon them-thus also all suffering-must perforce disappear and cease to be.
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What you think you become.
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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.