Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.
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Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from suffering within Great Peace.
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True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.
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Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace. Better than a hundred hollow lines Is one line of the dharma, bringing peace. It is better to conquer yourself Than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, Not by angels or by demons, Heaven or hell.
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All composite things pass away. Strive for your own liberation with diligence.
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Being generous and kindly in speech, doing a good turn for others, and treating all alike. One like this will be praised.
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If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.
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At the bottom of things, most people want to be understood and appreciated.
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Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
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How can a troubled mind Understand the way? If a man is disturbed He will never be filled with knowledge. An untroubled mind, No longer seeking to consider What is right and what is wrong, A mind beyond judgements, Watches and understands. Know that the body is a fragile jar, And make a castle of your mind. In every trial Let understanding fight for you To defend what you have won.
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All phenomena link together in a mutually conditioning network.
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As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
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Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.
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Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.
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Whoever doesn't flare up at someone who's angry wins a battle hard to win.
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Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless, be blameless. Awake to the law. And from all sorrows free yourself.
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Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill – natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.
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Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.
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As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth.
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Your greatest weapon is your enemy's mind.
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The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.
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Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?
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Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to and take as your guide.
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Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.