Gautama Buddha Quotes
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I know what I gave them; I don't know what they received.
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Right perspective is no perspective or all perspectives.
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It is easy to see the faults of others... it is hard to see our own.
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As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.
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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 your mind that creates the world.
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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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One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.
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Hate never ends hate. Only love can.
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Consider Others as Yourself.
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There are three ways to correct our faults:We can change through behavior We can change through understanding We can change heart.
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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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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.
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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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I will teach you the Truth and the Path leading to the Truth.
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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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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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An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.
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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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Mindfulness of the body leads to nirvana.
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What you think you become.
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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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Do not say anything harsh: what you have said will be said back to you.