The Buddha Quotes
Giving the best to others are giving the best to us. The value of life is not based on how long we live. But, how much can we contribute to others in our society ?
Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear
Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.
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.
If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.
I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all are eliminated no desire arises.
Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.
Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
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.
Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people will not see me.
If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.
Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy.
Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless, be blameless. Awake to the law. And from all sorrows free yourself.
Inflowing thoughts come to an end in those who are ever alert of mind, training themselves night and day, and ever intent on nirvana
Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.
One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.
Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease.
Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones
As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good.
If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner
Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.
He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain.
The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another.
One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.
A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
As solid rock remains unmoved by the wind, so the wise remain unmoved by blame and praise.
There are three ways to correct our faults:We can change through behavior We can change through understanding We can change heart
Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content.