There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering."… — 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
All the holy words you read and all the holy words you speak are as nothing if you do not act upon… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again. House-builder,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When a man is stimulated by his own thoughts, full of desire and dwelling on what is attractive, his craving increases even… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
All have I overcome, all do I know. From all am I detached. All have I renounced. Wholly absorbed am I in… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
To be concerned with the issue; soul versus non-soul, is to be in bondage to craving for becoming and non-becoming. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Confusion conditions activity, which conditions consciousness, which conditions embodied personality, which conditions sensory experiences, which conditions impact, which conditions mood, which conditions… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I have passed in ignorance through a cycle of many rebirths, seeking the builder of the house. Continuous rebirth is a painful… — 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
In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
(The real brahmin is the one who:) ... has crossed beyond duality ...knows no this shore, other shore, or both ...(is) settled… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Seeker, empty the boat, lighten the load, be free of craving and judgment and hatred, and feel the joy of the way. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear — 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
