Contemplative Teacher Quotes by Gautama Buddha

Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.

— Gautama Buddha

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

Give thanks for what had been given to you, However little. Be pure, never falter.

— Gautama Buddha

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

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

Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.

— Gautama Buddha

Pain is the outcome of sin.

— Gautama Buddha

It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.

— Gautama Buddha

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

If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.

— Gautama Buddha

Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.

— Gautama Buddha

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