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Buddhist Quotes by Gautama Buddha

346 Buddhist quotes by Gautama Buddha

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Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others; that is truly well spoken. The sayings warn that causing suffering brings suffering back, and they stress mindfulness of thoughts, avoiding meat, and recognizing that senses never bring lasting satisfaction. They also note that enlightenment comes from alert, disciplined training.

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Doubt everything. Find your own light.

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Consider Others as Yourself.

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It is better to travel well then arrive.

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Hunger (for things) is the supreme disease.

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What you think you become.

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All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

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The root of suffering is attachment

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Fill your mind with compassion.

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Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

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When action comes out of nothing it creates no karma.

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Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others

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He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.

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It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

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It is easy to see the faults of others... it is hard to see our own...

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Within this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained.

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The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.

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Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up…

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One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the…

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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

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I manifested in a dreamlike way to dreamlike beings and gave a dreamlike Dharma, but in reality I never taught and never…

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As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.

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Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy.

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He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.

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The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you…

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I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate,…

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Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he…

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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…

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If beings knew, as I know, the results of sharing gifts, they would not enjoy their gifts without sharing them with others,…

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By three things the wise person may be known. What three? He sees a shortcoming as it is. When he sees it,…

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There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there…

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Don't blindly believe what I say. Don't believe me because others convince you of my words. Don't believe anything you see, read,…

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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…

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In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the…

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And for a disciple thus freed, in whose heart dwells peace, there is nothing to be added to what has been done,…

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Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify…

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May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to…

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Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or…

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Do not accept what you hear by report, do not accept tradition, do not accept a statement because it is found in…

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Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet…

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Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, her only son, so one should cultivate an unbounded mind…

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Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.

So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that…

If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.

Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.

One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.

He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.

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