Body Quotes by Gautama Buddha

Mindfulness of the body leads to nirvana.

— Gautama Buddha

I have the body of a GOD

— Gautama Buddha

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

— Gautama Buddha

The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters.

— Gautama Buddha

Stay centered, do not overstretch. Extend from your center, return to your center.

— Gautama Buddha

Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow.

— Gautama Buddha

The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

— Gautama Buddha

Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.

— Gautama Buddha

Live contemplating the body. Contemplate internally and externally. Contemplate the origination of things in the body. Contemplate the dissolution of things in…

— Gautama Buddha

Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true…

— Gautama Buddha

The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind,…

— Gautama Buddha

The Beautiful chariots of kings wear out, This body too undergoes decay. But the Dhamma of the good does not decay: So…

— Gautama Buddha

The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never…

— Gautama Buddha

When we feel happy and peaceful, our happiness and peace radiates around us, and others can enjoy it as well. This is…

— Gautama Buddha

If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say…

— Gautama Buddha

There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension,…

— Gautama Buddha

In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock…

— Gautama Buddha

Nirvana is this moment seen directly. There is no where else than here. The only gate is now. The only doorway is…

— Gautama Buddha

Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he…

— Gautama Buddha

Beware of the anger of the body. Master the body. Let it serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master…

— Gautama Buddha

Please, try to eat a bit less meat, a bit more veggies from today. Let it become a habit gradually until not…

— Gautama Buddha

What is this world condition? Body is the world condition. And with body and form goes feeling, perception, consciousness, and all the…

— Gautama Buddha

Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness…

— Gautama Buddha

When a man is stimulated by his own thoughts, full of desire and dwelling on what is attractive, his craving increases even…

— Gautama Buddha

May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to…

— Gautama Buddha

How can a troubled mind Understand the way? If a man is disturbed He will never be filled with knowledge. An untroubled…

— Gautama Buddha

(The real brahmin is the one who:) ... has crossed beyond duality ...knows no this shore, other shore, or both ...(is) settled…

— Gautama Buddha

Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will…

— Gautama Buddha

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

All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils…

— Gautama Buddha

To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of…

— Gautama Buddha

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future,…

— Gautama Buddha

Do not believe anything because it is said by an authority, or if it is said to come from angels, or from…

— Gautama Buddha

For soon the body is discarded, Then what does it feel? A useless log of wood, it lies on the ground, Then…

— Gautama Buddha

I, ever knowing the living beings Who tread the Path and those who do not In response to those who may be…

— Gautama Buddha