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
Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I look upon the judgment of right and wrong as the serpentine dance of a dragon, and the rise and fall of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Let us live in joy, never falling sick like those who hate us. Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever… — 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
