“Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.” — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion! — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
All composite things pass away. Strive for your own liberation with diligence. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
This is deathless: the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Whatever grounds there are for making merit productive of a future birth, all these do not equal a sixteenth part of the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
'Wherefore, brethren, thus must ye train yourselves : Liberation of the will through love will develop, we will often practice it, we… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
My teaching is not a philosophy. It is the result of direct experience... My teaching is a means of practice, not something… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share
One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share
Give thanks for what had been given to you, However little. Be pure, never falter. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share
For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share
Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share
It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share
If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share
Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share
One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share
If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share
The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share
