Teaching Quotes by Gautama Buddha

15 Teaching quotes by Gautama Buddha

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Buddha’s take on teaching centers on awareness and kindness, and this handful of sayings captures that spirit. Each line invites educators to foster inner calm and empathy, offering a concise yet profound guide for nurturing thoughtful learners.

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To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

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Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones

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Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the…

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To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

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Yet the Teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be pure. At the end of the way is freedom.

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Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to…

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Don't believe a teaching just because you've heard it from a man who's supposed to be holy, or because it's contained in…

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

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If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such…

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These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states…

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Long is the night for the sleepless. Long is the road for the weary. Long is samsara (the cycle of continued rebirth)…

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Dependent Origination is the teaching (that life) is not the mere play of blind chance, but has an existence that is dependent…

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The Four Reliances. First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words; Second, rely on the teachings,…

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Rely on the teaching, not on the person; Rely on the meaning, not on the words; Rely on the definitive meaning, not…

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Offend in neither word nor deed. Eat with moderation. Live in your heart. Seek the highest consciousness. Master yourself according to the…

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

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For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

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Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to…

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

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Pain is the outcome of sin.

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

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So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that…

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If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.

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

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One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.

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