Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.Without reactions the world becomes clear. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The one who wanders independent in the world, free from opinions and viewpoints, does not grasp them and enter into disputations and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The more completely we give of ourselves, the more completely the world gives back to us. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Let the disciple cultivate love without measure towards all beings. Let him cultivate towards the whole world, above, below, around, a heart… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Whatever suffering there is in this world,all arises from desiring only myself to be happy.And whatever joy there is in this world,all… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
What is this world condition? Body is the world condition. And with body and form goes feeling, perception, consciousness, and all the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The world is on fire! And you are laughing? You are deep in the dark. Will you not ask for a light? — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded on our thoughts; it is made up… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Do not close your eyes before suffering. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, Including personal contact… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is nothing like lust. Lust may be said to be the most powerful passion. Fortunately, we have but one thing which… — 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
