Gautama Buddha Quotes, Past Quotes, Gone Quotes

The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment

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One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should think it was my doing. They should accept my authority in all matters great or small." This is a fool's way of thinking. His self-seeking and conceit just increase.

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A great gift - a gift of Dharma conquers all gifts.

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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. This is a helpful pointer for our everyday presence-practice. Can you catch yourself angrily defending your point of view or attacking the other person's? There's the ego.

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There are three ways to correct our faults:We can change through behavior We can change through understanding We can change heart

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Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.

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Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.

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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.

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Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.

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Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream

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A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.

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Awakening is natural,delusion is not

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When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.

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All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

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Dharma is not upheld by talking about it. Dharma is upheld by living in harmony with it.

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Rain falls, wind blows, plants bloom, leaves mature and are blown away; these phenomena are all interrelated with causes and conditions, are brought about by them, and disappear as the causes and conditions change.

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Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again

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Do not have as friends harmful people, the wise person does not associate with the worst of people. Have as friends virtuous people, the wise person associates with the best of people.

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Be lamps unto yourselves; be your own confidence. Hold truth within yourselves.

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If beings knew, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they would not eat without having given.

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