Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Let go the past, let go the future, and let go the present (front, back, middle). Crossing to the farther shore of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Develop a mind that is vast like space, where experiences both pleasant and unpleasant can appear and disappear without conflict, struggle or… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one's mind remains unshaken, sorrow-less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again… — 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 virtuous man or woman who is determined to develop the Supreme Enlightened Mind, should thus develop it: I have to lead… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The Four Reliances. First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words; Second, rely on the teachings,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Do not believe anything because it is said by an authority, or if it is said to come from angels, or from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
(The real brahmin is the one who:) ... has crossed beyond duality ...knows no this shore, other shore, or both ...(is) settled… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The wind cannot overturn a mountain. Temptation cannot touch the man Who is awake, strong and humble, Who masters hiself and minds… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For one who is a learner and who has not yet come to master their mind, but who dwells aspiring for peace… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For the wakeful one whose mind is quiet, whose thoughts are undisturbed, who has relinquished judgement and blame, there is no fear. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak… — 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
A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest… — 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 you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Rely on the teaching, not on the person; Rely on the meaning, not on the words; Rely on the definitive meaning, not… — 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
If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say… — 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
