Whatever grounds there are for making merit productive of a future birth, all these do not equal a sixteenth part of the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
You are as the yellow leaf. The messengers of death are at hand. You are to travel far away. What will you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
... Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The masters only point the way. But if you meditate And follow the dharma You will free yourself from desire. 'Everything arises… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The good shine from afar Like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don't appear Even when near, Like arrows shot into the night. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
However young, the seeker who sets out upon the way Shines bright over the world. But day and night the person who… — 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
