If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If the mind be fixed on the acquirement of any object, that object will be attained. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If there is a God, it is inconceivable that he would be concerned about my day to day affairs. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The masters only point the way. But if you meditate And follow the dharma You will free yourself from desire. 'Everything arises… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you determine your course With force or speed, You miss the way of the dharma. Quietly consider What is right and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
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
If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There are having flowers in Spring, breezes in Summer, moon in Autumn, snows in Winter. If there is nothing worrying over you,… — 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
...One who possesses four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there. What four? Bodily good conduct, verbal good conduct, mental… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you want to understand the causes that existed in the past, look at the results as they are manifested in the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is nothing like lust. Lust may be said to be the most powerful passion. Fortunately, we have but one thing which… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When you know for yourselves, 'These things are wholesome; these things are blameless; these things are praised by the wise; these things,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
All the holy words you read and all the holy words you speak are as nothing if you do not act upon… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Do not believe anything because it is said by an authority, or if it is said to come from angels, or from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you are tossed about by doubts, full of strong thoughtless passions, and yearning only for that which is detrimental, your thirst… — 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
