Gautama Buddha Quotes
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They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma. Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.
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Cultivation of meditative stability alone, will not destroy the discrimination of inherent existence. Afflictive emotions can return, making all sorts of disturbances.
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There are, O monks, these four lights. What four? The light of the moon, the light of the sun, the light of fire, and the light of wisdom. Of these four lights, the light of wisdom is supreme.
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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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As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world.
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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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Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.
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In protecting oneself, others are protected; In protecting others, oneself is protected.
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Here will I live in the rainy season, here in the autumn and in the summer: thus muses the fool. He realizes not the danger of death.
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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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When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known.
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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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If people become accustomed to lying, they will unconsciously commit every possible wrong deed. Before they can act wickedly, they must lie and once they begin to lie they will act wickedly without concern.
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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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Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself by the way you think about the 'pain' you receive. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. You can always be grateful that the pain is not worse in quality, quantity, frequency, duration, etc
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As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.
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Forgive and be free. Forget that you have forgiven and be freer.
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To abstain from lying is essentially wholesome.
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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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If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.
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The end of desire is the end of sorrow.
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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 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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When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish to follow the Way, make your own hearts clean from the dirt of evil passion, and your conduct will be unimpeachable.