Buddha Quotes “All conditioned things are impermanent” — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering. “Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts” “Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth” “Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.” “People with opinions just go around bothering each other.” “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the single candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” “We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis…” ‘As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I.’ Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill. A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated — this is the greatest blessing. All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill. As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed. As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse. Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things. Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good. Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal. He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes. I will not look at another’s bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed. If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart. If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way. Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves. Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame. Let all-embracing thoughts for all beings be yours. Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one’s own acts, done and undone. Resolutely train yourself to attain peace Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good. Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels. The root of suffering is attachment To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation — this is the greatest blessing. Whoever doesn’t flare up at someone who’s angry wins a battle hard to win. You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way. Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good. (Dhammapada) Even as a mother protects with her life her child, her only child, so with a boundless heart, should one cherish all living beings. (Karaniya Metta Sutta) Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal. (Dhammapada) If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox. (Dhammapada) In four ways … should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend’s evil deeds, he disapproves his friend’s good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence. (Sigalovada Sutta) The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven. (Sigalovada Sutta) A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated — this is the greatest blessing. (Mangala Sutta) Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape from the results of evil deeds. (Dhammapada) Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good. (Dhammapada) Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant. (Sutta Nipata) Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. (Sutta Nipata) There are these two kinds of gifts: a gift of material things & a gift of the Dhamma. Of the two, this is supreme: a gift of the Dhamma. (Itivuttaka) To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation — this is the greatest blessing. (Mangala Sutta) When a monk is an arahant, with his fermentations ended — one who has reached fulfillment, done the task, laid down the burden, attained the true goal, totally destroyed the fetter of becoming, and is released through right gnosis — the thought doesn’t occur to him that ‘There is someone better than me,’ or ‘There is someone equal to me,’ or ‘There is someone worse than me.’ (Khema Sutta) 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. (Itivuttaka)
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