Rivers Quotes by Gautama Buddha

10 Rivers quotes by Gautama Buddha

Gautama Buddha’s river insights illustrate the fleeting nature of existence, inviting contemplation of change through the metaphor of water. Though limited in number, the sayings provide a clear, meditative lens on the flow of life.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

Live like a mighty river.

Gautama Buddha

Image

Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full…

Gautama Buddha

Image

A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.

Gautama Buddha

Image

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he…

Gautama Buddha

Image

Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.

Gautama Buddha

Image

There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river.

Gautama Buddha

Image

To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you…

Gautama Buddha

Image

Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise…

Gautama Buddha

Image

My teaching is not a philosophy. It is the result of direct experience... My teaching is a means of practice, not something…

Gautama Buddha

Image

Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell…

Gautama Buddha

Image

Other authors on Rivers

More by Gautama Buddha

Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.

Gautama Buddha

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

Image

Give thanks for what had been given to you, However little. Be pure, never falter.

Gautama Buddha

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

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

Image

Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.

Gautama Buddha

Image

Pain is the outcome of sin.

Gautama Buddha

Image

It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.

Gautama Buddha

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

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

Image

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

Gautama Buddha

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

Image

He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.

Gautama Buddha

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

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

Image