If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you find someone with wisdom, good judgment, and good actions; make him a companion. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Meat-eating is condemned by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Sravakas; if one devours meat out of shamelessness he will always be devoid of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A good friend who points out mistakes is to be respected, as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If there is only empty space, with no suns nor planets in it, then space loses its substantiality. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you don't disturb yourself, like a broken gong does not vibrate, then you have achieved nirvana. Irritability no longer exists for… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned. If, monks, there were no unborn... no escape would be discerned from what is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If it is not truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
How can a troubled mind Understand the way? If a man is disturbed He will never be filled with knowledge. An untroubled… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame and glory. But when they have acquired it, they are already stricken in… — 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
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
If beings knew, as I know, the results of sharing gifts, they would not enjoy their gifts without sharing them with others,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If dresses would have qualified people, then whores would have ruled the world. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for… — 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
If beings knew, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they would not eat without having given... — 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
