Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If dresses would have qualified people, then whores would have ruled the world. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Live in Joy, In love, Even among those who hate. Live in joy, In health, Even among the afflicted. Live in joy,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When ignorant people see someone who is dead, they are disgusted and horrified, even thought they too will be dead some day.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Overcome your uncertainties and free yourself from dwelling on sorrow. When you delight in existence, you will awaken, and become a guide… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should one incite another to kill. Do not… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade… — 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
