Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.Without reactions the world becomes clear. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering."… — 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
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
“When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.” — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than… — 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