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.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If people speak or act with evil thoughts, pain follows them. If people speak or act with pure thoughts, happiness follows them, like a shadow that never leaves them.
All that has been hidden is rising, there is no stopping it! These things you cannot hide: the sun, the moon, and TRUTH.
Peace comes from within; do not try to seek it without.
Thought-habits can harden into character. So watch your thoughts.
Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief.
It is better to do nothing Than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself.
Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions. Without reactions the world becomes clear.
It is better to travel well than arrive.
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 way, crosses over, beyond the reach of death. He leaves the dark way for the way of light.
Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.
Hate is only conquered by love.
What you have become is the result of what you have thought.
Right perspective is no perspective or all perspectives.
Hate never ends hate. Only love can.
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 is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again.
Forgive and be free. Forget that you have forgiven and be freer.
Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity so the wise man knows no hatred.
If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.
He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.
The greatest victory is the one over oneself.
The fiercest fire is hatred.
When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.
After enlightenment, the laundry.
