For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.” — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“I shall live here in the rains, There in winter, Elsewhere in summer," muses the fool, Not aware of the nearness of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“To life in the consciousness of the inevitability of suffering, of becoming enfeebled, of old age and of death, is impossible --… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
You are as the yellow leaf. The messengers of death are at hand. You are to travel far away. What will you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union… — 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
The world is full of suffering. Birth is suffering, decre- pitude is suffering, sickness and death are sufferings. To face a man… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet… — 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
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
He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Here will I live in the rainy season, here in the autumn and in the summer: thus muses the fool. He realizes… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm… — 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
Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, 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
