Gautama Buddha Quotes
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The four catagories of existance, non-existance, both existance and non-existance, and neither existance nor non-existance, are spiderwebs among spiderwebs which can never take hold of the enormous bird of reality.
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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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Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content.
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Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the cartwheel follows the foot of the draft animal. If with a pure mind, you speak or act, then happiness follows you as a shadow that never departs.
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When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.
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Heaven and Hell are imaginary creation of ignorant minds.
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You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.
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Nothing is to be clung to as I, me or mine.
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Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.
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All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.
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Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.
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He who, calm and clear as the moon, hankers no more for continuity-he is holy.
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All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.
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Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.
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Long is the night for the sleepless. Long is the road for the weary. Long is samsara (the cycle of continued rebirth) for the foolish, who have not recognised the true teaching.
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The mind precedes all things, the mind dominates all things, the mind creates all things.
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Live like a mighty river.
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The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next.
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Analyzing through special insight and realizing the lack of inherent existence constitute understanding of the signless.
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Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.
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Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.
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All rising to great places is by a winding stair.
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Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
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Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine. Believe it only because you yourself know it to be true.