Gautama Buddha Quotes, Passion Quotes, Heart Quotes

When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish to follow the Way, make your own hearts clean from the dirt of evil passion, and your conduct will be unimpeachable.

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Victory breeds hatred; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, giving up victory and defeat.

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Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now.

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At the end of the way is freedom. Until then, patience.

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Holding on to anger is like poisoning yourself and hoping someone else will die.

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Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, 'This is not mine, this is not what I am, this is not my self.'

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As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.

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First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. ...Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego.

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The root of suffering is attachment

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Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

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The judgment: You are now before Yama, King of the Dead. In vain will you try to...deny or conceal the evil deeds you have done. ... the mirror in which Yama seems to read your past is your own memory, and also his judgment is your own. It is you yourself who pronounce your own judgment.

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He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is truly called one who is bound upstream.

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With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.

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

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When giving to others do not linger on thoughts of a giving, what was given, or the one who has received.

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To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

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Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.

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By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified.

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Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men, embracing erroneous views, enter the woeful path.

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind. If a man speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering will follow him as the wheel of the cart follows the beast that draws the cart. If a man speaks or acts with a pure mind, joy follows him as his own shadow.

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