Views Quotes by Gautama Buddha

12 Views quotes by Gautama Buddha

Even with just 12 lines, this selection captures the Buddha’s core emphasis on mindfulness, suffering, and the path to liberation. It serves as a compact entry point for anyone curious about his philosophical outlook.

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In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view.

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Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.

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Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views

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Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be…

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Rage is a powerful energy that with diligent practice can be transformed into fierce compassion. However much we disagree with our enemies,…

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The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he…

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This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness,…

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Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he…

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So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies,…

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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…

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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.…

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Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. It can be argued that peace and happiness comes from the subjective internalised…

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Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.

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One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you…

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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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He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.

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If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual…

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The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much…

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