Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings...that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize… — 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
All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind. — 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
All of you knowing now, Tthat the Buddhas, the Teachers of the Ages, In accord with what is peculiarly appropriate, have recourse… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you are tossed about by doubts, full of strong thoughtless passions, and yearning only for that which is detrimental, your thirst… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by… — 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
One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A brahmin once asked The Blessed One: "Are you a God?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a saint?" "No,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind… — 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
The discipline which I have imparted to you will lead you when I am gone. Practice mindfulness diligently, to attain the goal… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would… — 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
Right is that which is not your invention. It is already there. If you go away from it you are wrong, if… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Being able to make friends and keep them, welcoming others and sharing with them, a guide, philosopher and friend. One like this… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Why do what you will regret? Why bring tears upon yourself? Do only what you do not regret, And fill yourself with… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Whatever the hateful do to the hateful, or an enemy to an enemy, worse is the harm of a misguided mind directed… — 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
When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful. — 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
