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.
Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.
In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respect are the source of harmony
Harm no other beings. They are just your brothers and sisters.
Through true honesty deeply believethat all sentient beings are one. That all beings have the same true nature, wisdom, virtue.
Dispassion is the best of mental states. . . .
O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never forget, that compassion makes the world noble and beautiful.
May we live like the lotus, at home in muddy water.
Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.
Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to and take as your guide.
When action comes out of nothing it creates no karma.
To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.
You only lose that which you cling to.
Being generous and kindly in speech, doing a good turn for others, and treating all alike. One like this will be praised.
Joyously participate in the sorrows of others.
O seeker! Rely on nothing until you want nothing.
If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from tree to tree, Never finding the fruit - From life to life, Never finding peace. If you are filled with desire Your sorrows swell Like the grass after the rain. But if you subdue desire Your sorrows shall fall from you Like drops of water from a lotus flower.
Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening.
Wherever you live is your temple, if you treat it like one.
The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened.
When you come upon a path that brings benefit and happiness to all, follow this course as the moon journeys through the stars.
One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.
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 the winning of knowledge and insight, to pleasant living in this very life, to the realization of the fruit of release by knowledge. What is that one thing: It is mindfulness centered on the body.
If a string has one end, it has another.
