Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is easy to see the faults of others... it is hard to see our own... — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There are these two kinds of gifts: a gift of material things & a gift of the Dhamma. Of the two, this… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Until he has unconditional and unbiased love for all beings, man will not find peace. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It's your road...and yours alone... Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. No matter what… — 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
Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there… — 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
