Gautama Buddha Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Teaching Quotes

My teaching is not a philosophy. It is the result of direct experience... My teaching is a means of practice, not something to hold onto or worship. My teaching is like a raft used to cross the river. Only a fool would carry the raft around after he had already reached the other shore of liberation.

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One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

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Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real humanitarianism.

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Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.

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To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing.

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If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

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It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

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Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the Discipline. If they are neither traceable in the Discourses nor verifiable by the Discipline, one must conclude thus: 'Certainly, this is not the Blessed One's utterance; this has been misunderstood by that bhikkhu - or by that community, or by those elders, or by that elder.' In that way, bhikkhus, you should reject it.

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I am always at the beginning.

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He is able who think he is able.

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It takes hundred of years sitting together in the same boat. It takes thousand of years sharing the same bed with. It calls : the predestined affinity.

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Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.

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Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind

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Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled.

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The seeker is that which is being sought.

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(They) were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia.

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As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good.

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Your worst enemy is your best teacher.

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Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering.

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To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.

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