The Buddha Quotes

Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.

As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning them.

What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.

Anarchy could never get a man to the moon, but it may the only mode that can allow us to survive on earth.

Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing.

Perfect wisdom, Perfect tranquility,Perfect compassion,arise fromOur love,Our sincerity.Our understanding.

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger... Let a man overcome anger by love.

All things that are born must die. Work hard for your own freedom from sorrow.

All beings wish for happiness, so extend your compassion to all.

Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy.

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

Give the people - confidence. Give the people - delight. Give the people - hope. Give the people - the best.

For those who are ready the door to the deathless state is open. If you have ears give up the conditions that bind you and enter in.

The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false.

When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is

With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart: above, below, and all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate.

Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything.

Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.

The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.

If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.

The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the Truth beats all other joys, and the cessation of desire conquers all suffering

Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.

When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.

Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.

The discipline which I have imparted to you will lead you when I am gone. Practice mindfulness diligently, to attain the goal of awakening.

You yourself must earnestly practice, the enlightened ones only proclaim the path.

If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.

Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.

Give thanks for what had been given to you, However little. Be pure, never falter.

Though thousand times a thousand in battle one may conquer, yet should one conquer just oneself, one is the greatest conqueror.

Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love.

One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment.

One should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should one incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak, in the world.

Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not carried out by the speaker.

Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.

Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light.

If you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself to be pleased by good. Accumulating good is joyful.

It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.

Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.

As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.

Joy and openness come from our own contented heart.

To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.

Look within, thou art the Buddha.

(They) were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia.

An evil deed, like fresh milk, does not go bad suddenly. Smouldering, like fire covered by ashes, the evil deed follows the fool.