He who, calm and clear as the moon, hankers no more for continuity-he is holy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
To awaken, sit calmly, letting each breath clear your mind and open your heart. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.Without reactions the world becomes clear. — 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
To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There are those who discover they can leave behind destructive reactions and become patient as the earth, unmoved by fires of anger… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
No clouds gathered in the skies and the polluted streams became clear, whilst celestial music rang through the air and the angels… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that… — 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