There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 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
