Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion! — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. — 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
Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
What is this world condition? Body is the world condition. And with body and form goes feeling, perception, consciousness, and all the… — 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
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
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
The Four Reliances. First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words; Second, rely on the teachings,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The mind precedes all things, the mind dominates all things, the mind creates all things. — 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
The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
This is deathless: the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas. — 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 a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Whatever the hateful do to the hateful, or an enemy to an enemy, worse is the harm of a misguided mind directed… — 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
