Buddha
Quotes
The founder of Buddhism, he attained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree and spent his life teaching the path to liberation from suffering. His teachings, known as the Dharma, outline the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path as a guide to achieving Nirvana. Emphasizing mindfulness, ethical conduct, and wisdom, his philosophy advocates for a Middle Way between self-indulgence and self-mortification. His profound influence continues to shape spiritual practice and ethical conduct across various cultures.
Buddha
Quotes
The founder of Buddhism, he attained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree and spent his life teaching the path to liberation from suffering. His teachings, known as the Dharma, outline the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path as a guide to achieving Nirvana. Emphasizing mindfulness, ethical conduct, and wisdom, his philosophy advocates for a Middle Way between self-indulgence and self-mortification. His profound influence continues to shape spiritual practice and ethical conduct across various cultures.
Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.
As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births.
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, great indeed is this Way.
It is within this fathoms-long carcass, with its mind and its notions, that I declare there is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world and the path leading to the cessation of the world.
Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think.
Be a lamp unto yourself.
Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.
Concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Conquer a liar with truth.
Suffering is an illusion.
It is your mind that creates the world.
Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.
You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.
To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.
Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless, be blameless. Awake to the law. And from all sorrows free yourself.
An pretend and evil friend is haughty to be feared than a unmanageable beast; a unmanageable beast may mouthful your build up, but an evil friend fortitude mouthful your intellect.
You, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and respect.
How deeply did you learn to let go?
If you hold yourself dear, protect yourself well.
Remember that the only constant in life is change.
When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one's mind remains unshaken, sorrow-less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare
Mind is everything. What we think, we become.
Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.
