Gautama Buddha Quotes, Buddhist Quotes, Reflection Quotes

I will purify my bodily actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my verbal actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my mental actions through repeated reflection. That's how you should train yourself.

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Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.

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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

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Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life.

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Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.

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Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.

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Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-al ready-are.

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Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions.

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These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states of mind generated by these teachings, How much more so should you abandon bad states of mind!

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Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy.

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Imagine a multidimensiona l spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.

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Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

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How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own.

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Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he may indeed be called "In his last body", "Great in wisdom" and a "Great man."

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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.

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He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release - the way of such a person is hard to follow, like the path of birds through the sky.

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Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

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And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

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Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

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