One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one… — 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
As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.” — 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
For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again. House-builder,… — 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
Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Confusion conditions activity, which conditions consciousness, which conditions embodied personality, which conditions sensory experiences, which conditions impact, which conditions mood, which conditions… — 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
Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world,… — 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
Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The world is full of suffering. Birth is suffering, decre- pitude is suffering, sickness and death are sufferings. To face a man… — 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 Image
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 Image
Give thanks for what had been given to you, However little. Be pure, never falter. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
