The Buddha Quotes
Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy.
To be concerned with the issue; soul versus non-soul, is to be in bondage to craving for becoming and non-becoming.
Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances.
Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.
One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . . .
To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.
I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.
An pretend and evil friend is haughty to be feared than a unmanageable beast; a unmanageable beast may mouthful your build up, but an evil friend fortitude mouthful your intellect.
Happy are those who have overcome their egos; happy are those who have attained peace; happy are those who have found the Truth.
Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.
We will be thankful and grateful. Not even the last thing that is done for us shall be forgotten.
Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.
Being able to make friends and keep them, welcoming others and sharing with them, a guide, philosopher and friend. One like this will be praised.
Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.
Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on the mental and physical aggregates
Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it.
Just as you have come to know, the false discrimination of yourself, apply this mentally to all phenomena
The Beautiful chariots of kings wear out, This body too undergoes decay. But the Dhamma of the good does not decay: So the good proclaim along with the good.
Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on to the deathless stage experienced by the wise
Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.
Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.
