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Down Quotes by Gautama Buddha
- If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?
- When a monk is an arahant, with his fermentations ended - one who has reached fulfillment, done the task, laid down the burden, attained the…
- Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or enmity. Then as…
- Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, her only son, so one should cultivate an unbounded mind towards all beings,…
- This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of…
- (The real brahmin is the one who:) ... has crossed beyond duality ...knows no this shore, other shore, or both ...(is) settled in mind ...…
- The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering after trinkets, children…
- Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and…
- Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky; the spittle will never reach the sky, but comes down on himself.…
- Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise man, following the…
- Do not believe what you have heard Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations Do not believe in anything that…
- We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end.
- Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing aside.
- Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant…
- A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root…
- Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.
- Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the…
- A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who…
- Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel.…
- Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the…
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