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Philosophy of Mind Quotes by Gautama Buddha

39 Philosophy of Mind quotes by Gautama Buddha

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Gautama Buddha teaches that thoughts shape who we become, and that an alert, mindful mind can end the endless flow of mental chatter. He also says that freeing the mind from good and evil removes fear, and that true happiness follows a pure, focused awareness.

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Let all-embracing thoughts for all beings be yours.

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The no-mind not-thinks no-thoughts about no-things.

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What you have become is the result of what you have thought

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Be the witness of your thoughts.

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Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

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All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.

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Thought-habits can harden into character. So watch your thoughts.

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When giving to others do not linger on thoughts of a giving, what was given, or the one who has received.

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The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or…

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If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

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Do not be thoughtless, always be mindful, watch your thoughts! Draw yourself out of the path of evil, like an elephant sunk…

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“To life in the consciousness of the inevitability of suffering, of becoming enfeebled, of old age and of death, is impossible --…

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He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release -…

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With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows…

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Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind…

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Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are…

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Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence... Enter into rapture and…

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There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can…

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is…

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In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock…

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How does one stay mindful? Where feelings are known as they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. Thoughts…

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All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded on our thoughts; it is made up…

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Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings,…

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What is this world condition? Body is the world condition. And with body and form goes feeling, perception, consciousness, and all the…

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Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a…

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When a monk is an arahant, with his fermentations ended - one who has reached fulfillment, done the task, laid down the…

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Inflowing thoughts come to an end in those who are ever alert of mind, training themselves night and day, and ever intent…

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Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like…

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The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into…

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded…

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In the light of his vision that is the perspective that allows him to be grateful that things are not worse he…

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We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak…

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Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body…

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An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is…

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He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached…

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For the wakeful one whose mind is quiet, whose thoughts are undisturbed, who has relinquished judgement and blame, there is no fear.

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“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of…

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In what is seen, there should be just the seen; In what is heard, there should be just the heard; In what…

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If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.

Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.

One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.

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