Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Which do you think is more my friend, the water in the four great oceans or the tears that you have shed… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Little by little a person becomes evil, as a water pot is filled by drops of water... Little by little a person… — 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
As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so, brahmins, is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The one who wanders independent in the world, free from opinions and viewpoints, does not grasp them and enter into disputations and… — 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
Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape… — 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
