Gautama Buddha Quotes - Page 2

Bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya:For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Greater in battlethan the man who would conquera thousand-thousand men,is he who would conquerjust one —himself.Better to conquer yourselfthan others.When you've trained yourself,living in constant self-control,neither a deva nor gandhabba,nor a Mara banded with Brahmas,could turn that triumphback into defeat.

Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again.House-builder, you're seen!You will not build a house again.All your rafters broken,the ridge pole destroyed,gone to the Unformed, the mind has come to the end of craving.

Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

All beings tremble before violence.All fear death.All love life.See yourself in others.Then whom can you hurt?What harm can you do?

Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering, full of tribulation. This one should wisely understand, one should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

You only lose what you cling to.

Now, Kalamas, don’t go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, ‘This contemplative is our teacher.’ When you know for yourselves that, ‘These qualities are skillful; these qualities are blameless; these qualities are praised by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to welfare & to happiness’ — then you should enter & remain in

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.

Attachment leads to suffering.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

Like a caring motherholding and guarding the lifeof her only child,so with a boundless heartof lovingkindness,hold yourself and all beingsas your beloved children.

Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.

All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.

May all that have life be delivered from suffering

Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind. A controlled mind brings happiness.

Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.

Purity or impurity depends on oneself,No one can purify another.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading

We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it

Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.

So also is the case if I don’t care the one abusing me. He is the one going to be demeaned.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

It is like a lighted torch whose flame can be distributed to ever so many other torches which people may bring along; and therewith they will cook food and dispel darkness, while the original torch itself remains burning ever the same. It is even so with the bliss of th

Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion.

Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention