There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
Gautama BuddhaWinning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing aside.
Gautama BuddhaSome do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.
Gautama BuddhaAttention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.
Gautama BuddhaSound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.
Gautama BuddhaLet your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or enmity. Then as you stand or walk, Sit or lie down, As long as you are awake, Strive for this with a one-pointed mind; Your life will bring heaven to earth.
Gautama BuddhaNeither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.
Gautama BuddhaOne who is wise and disciplined, always kind and intelligent, humble and free from pride. One like this will be praised.
Gautama BuddhaWhat is this world condition? Body is the world condition. And with body and form goes feeling, perception, consciousness, and all the activities throughout the world. The arising of form and the ceasing of form-everything that has been heard, sensed, and known, sought after and reached by the mind-all this is the embodied world, to be penetrated and realized.
Gautama BuddhaEstablish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything.
Gautama BuddhaNow this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.
Gautama BuddhaDignity and quiet joy in all that we do are the expression of perfect concentration and perfect wisdom.
Gautama BuddhaIf there is only empty space, with no suns nor planets in it, then space loses its substantiality.
Gautama BuddhaDo not close your eyes before suffering. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, Including personal contact and visits, images, sound. By such means, awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world.
Gautama BuddhaTemperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
Gautama BuddhaDo not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Gautama BuddhaThe fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.
Gautama BuddhaThe man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.
Gautama BuddhaOne is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.
Gautama BuddhaDevelop a mind that is vast like space, where experiences both pleasant and unpleasant can appear and disappear without conflict, struggle or harm. Rest in a mind like vast sky.
Gautama BuddhaJust 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.
Gautama BuddhaA wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.
Gautama BuddhaThe fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money.
Gautama BuddhaMen give up one thing to take up another, but in spite of numerous changes they do not find peace. They are no better than monkeys who let go one bough to take hold of another, only to let it go again.
Gautama BuddhaTo eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat.
Gautama BuddhaEndurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
Gautama BuddhaDon't blindly believe what I say. Don't believe me because others convince you of my words. Don't believe anything you see, read, or hear from others, whether of authority, religious teachers or texts.
Gautama BuddhaBy whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.
Gautama BuddhaJust as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.
Gautama BuddhaHere even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are set up through the power of thought. Through the power of conceptuality the world is established
Gautama BuddhaThe world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.
Gautama BuddhaIf you find someone with wisdom, good judgment, and good actions; make him a companion.
Gautama BuddhaHatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.
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