Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If dresses would have qualified people, then whores would have ruled the world. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so… — 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
Hatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. By love alone they cease. This is an ancient Law. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Mankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should one incite another to kill. Do not… — 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
Regard this fleeting world like this: Like stars fading and vanishing at dawn, like bubbles on a fast-moving stream, like morning dewdrops… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
"All is passing". When one realises this, he sits loose to this world of sorrow : This is the way of purity. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot… — 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
Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stifled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The ocean, king of mountains and the mighty continents Are not heavy burdens to bear when compared To the burden of not… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
As a net is made up of a series of ties, so everything in this world is connected by a series of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world. — 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
