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Great Quotes by Gautama Buddha
- Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.
- For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say, an island exists…
- The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to…
- Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever…
- One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should think it was…
- If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.
- Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he may indeed be…
- The Buddhas, the World-Honored Ones, for one great cause alone appear in the world. The Buddhas, the World-Honored Ones, appear in the world because they…
- All of you knowing now, Tthat the Buddhas, the Teachers of the Ages, In accord with what is peculiarly appropriate, have recourse to expedient devices,…
- When you have great joy, you will become Buddhas!
- All rising to great places is by a winding stair.
- A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches…
- When a man venerates those worthy of veneration, be they Buddhas or their disciples, who have transcended all obstacles and passed beyond sorrow and tears…
- The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion.
- One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming…
- Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.
- If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart,…
- A great gift - a gift of Dharma conquers all gifts.
- Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings…
- By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we…
- If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it.
- Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to…
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