Gautama Buddha Quotes

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

those which arise dependently are free of inherent existence.

friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.

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

All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.

Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me.

Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.

Bhikkus, all is burning. And what is the all that is burning?The eye is burning, visible forms are burning, eye-consciousness is burning, eye-contact is burning; also whatever is felt as pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant that arises with eye-contact as its condition, that too is burning. Burning with what? Burning with the fire of greed, with the fire of hate, with the fire of delusion, with birth, ageing and death, with sorrow, with lamentation, with pain, grief and despair it is burning.