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.
Be a light unto yourself.
He who slings mud loses ground.
If you do not follow the right path, you will be lost.
Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.
It is because of their tranquil thoughts That creatures go to prosperity.
Love lasts when the relationship comes first.
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.
If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace.
Learn to be happy with what you have.
People with opinions just go around bothering each other.
Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.
I teach about suffering and the way to end it.
When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.
The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.
Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful
Look within, thou art the Buddha.
A person is ruined by taking the measure of other persons.
Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. It can be argued that peace and happiness comes from the subjective internalised perspective of realizing things could be worse and being grateful they aren't. The alternative view that peace and happiness comes from the objective external perspective of having more and better things than at present, while important for growth, can be a never-ending source of jealousy, dissatisfaction and disappointment. A balance of the two, where people are grateful for what they have while striving for more seems the best blended perspective.
Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path.
