But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Do not carry with you your mistakes. Do not carry your cares. Travel on alone. Like an elephant in the forest. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment. — 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
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
