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.
If there be one righteous person, the rain falls for his sake.
Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.
Rely on the teaching, not on the person; Rely on the meaning, not on the words; Rely on the definitive meaning, not on the provisional; Rely on your wisdom mind, not on your ordinary mind.
You are what you think about.
Conquer the angry man by love.
A disciplined mind brings happiness.
May all sentient beings be happy and free of suffering.
My whole life, I never spoke a single word.
An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.
What I know is like the leaves on that tree; what I teach is only a small part. But I offer it to all with an open hand. What do I not teach? Whatever is fascinating to discuss, divides people against each other, but has no bearing on putting an end to sorrow. What do I teach? Only what is necessary to take you to the other shore.
Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.
I teach one thing and one only: that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
You too shall pass away. Knowing this, how can you quarrel?
As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth.
Awakening is natural, delusion is not.
Seeing the Way is like going into a dark room with a torch; the darkness instantly departs, while the light alone remains. When the Way is attained and the truth is seen, ignorance vanishes and enlightenment abides forever.
To know and not to use is not yet to know!
I have the body of a GOD
Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention
The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.
Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.
When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the fruit, nirvana. One does not go to peace through any other cause.
There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.
