I teach one thing and one only: that is, suffering and the end of suffering. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is our very search for perfection outside of ourselves that causes suffering. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
May I hold myself in compassion. May I meet the suffering and ignorance of others with compassion. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
To stop suffering, stop greediness. Greediness is a source of suffering. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving… — 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
By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The world is full of suffering. Birth is suffering, decre- pitude is suffering, sickness and death are sufferings. To face a man… — 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
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
“Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again. House-builder,… — 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
An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A virtuous man or woman who is determined to develop the Supreme Enlightened Mind, should thus develop it: I have to lead… — 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
So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies,… — 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
Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to… — 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
