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
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
This is deathless: the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified. — 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
If the mind be fixed on the acquirement of any object, that object will be attained. — 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
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
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
“How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a… — 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
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
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
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
We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future,… — 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
(The real brahmin is the one who:) ... has crossed beyond duality ...knows no this shore, other shore, or both ...(is) settled… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again… — 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
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
“So too, friend, purification of virtue is for the sake of reaching purification of mind; purification of mind is for the sake… — 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
