Stay centered, do not overstretch. Extend from your center, return to your center. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the… — 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
Life at home is cramped and dirty, it is difficult to live a spiritual life completely, perfect and pure in all its… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Life is dear to all beings, they have the right to live the same that we do. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“To life in the consciousness of the inevitability of suffering, of becoming enfeebled, of old age and of death, is impossible --… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the… — 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
Cultivation of meditative stability alone, will not destroy the discrimination of inherent existence. Afflictive emotions can return, making all sorts of disturbances — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Giving the best to others are giving the best to us. The value of life is not based on how long we… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so, brahmins, is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Dependent Origination is the teaching (that life) is not the mere play of blind chance, but has an existence that is dependent… — 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
In what is seen, there should be just the seen; In what is heard, there should be just the heard; In what… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again. House-builder,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Everything that happens to us is the result of what we ourselves have thought, said, or done.We alone are responsible for our… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity. — 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
Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If dresses would have qualified people, then whores would have ruled the world. — 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
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
Give thanks for what had been given to you, However little. Be pure, never falter. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share
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
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
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share
The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share
