It is our very search for perfection outside of ourselves that causes suffering. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill -… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Craving and desire are the cause of all unhappiness. Everything sooner or later must change, so do not become attached to anything.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should one incite another to kill. Do not… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Rain falls, wind blows, plants bloom, leaves mature and are blown away; these phenomena are all interrelated with causes and conditions, are… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you want to understand the causes that existed in the past, look at the results as they are manifested in the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I, ever knowing the living beings Who tread the Path and those who do not In response to those who may be… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Observe the life by cause and consequence. Explore the life by wisdom. Treat the life by equality. Complete the life by love. — 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
Comparing oneself to others in such terms as "Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I,"… — 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
Therefore, do not eat meat which will cause terror among people, because it hinders the truth of emancipation; not to eat meat?… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the… — 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
And for a disciple thus freed, in whose heart dwells peace, there is nothing to be added to what has been done,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In what is seen, there should be just the seen; In what is heard, there should be just the heard; In what… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The Buddhas, the World-Honored Ones, for one great cause alone appear in the world. The Buddhas, the World-Honored Ones, appear in the… — 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
