Yet the Teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be pure. At the end of the way is freedom. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
All composite things pass away. Strive for your own liberation with diligence. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
This is deathless: the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Let us live most happily, free from hatred in the midst of the hateful; Let us remain free from hatred in the… — 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
Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In the light of his vision that is the perspective that allows him to be grateful that things are not worse he… — 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
And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
'Wherefore, brethren, thus must ye train yourselves : Liberation of the will through love will develop, we will often practice it, we… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is no fire like greed, No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger of heart, And no… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
And for a disciple thus freed, in whose heart dwells peace, there is nothing to be added to what has been done,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Whatever grounds there are for making merit productive of a future birth, all these do not equal a sixteenth part of the… — 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
“Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.” — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion! — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
All things that are born must die. Work hard for your own freedom from sorrow. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true… — 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
There is no fire like passion No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger, And no joy like… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on… — 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
