All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life… — 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
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Rely on the teaching, not on the person; Rely on the meaning, not on the words; Rely on the definitive meaning, not… — 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
They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Nirvana is this moment seen directly. There is no where else than here. The only gate is now. The only doorway is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, her only son, so one should cultivate an unbounded mind… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I have passed in ignorance through a cycle of many rebirths, seeking the builder of the house. Continuous rebirth is a painful… — 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 polluted mind,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is… — 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
Our mind is full of anger, jealousy and other negative feelings. Yet we do not realize that these are incompatible with inner… — 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
The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Inflowing thoughts come to an end in those who are ever alert of mind, training themselves night and day, and ever intent… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy; while giving, the mind of the giver is made peaceful; and having given,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence... Enter into rapture and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's better to be kind than to be right. We do not need an intelligent mind that speaks, but a patient… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Beware of the anger of the body. Master the body. Let it serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Let go the past, let go the future, and let go the present (front, back, middle). Crossing to the farther shore of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones — 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
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 Image
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 Image
