Gautama Buddha Quotes, Mistake Quotes, Good Friend Quotes

A good friend who points out mistakes is to be respected, as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

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Do not accept what you hear by report, do not accept tradition, do not accept a statement because it is found in our books, nor because it is in accord with your belief, nor because it is the saying of your teacher. Be lamps unto yourselves. Those who, either now or after I am dead, shall rely upon themselves only and not look for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who shall reach the topmost height.

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Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.

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Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings...that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

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Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.

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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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Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.

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From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat.

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I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.

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One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.

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Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.

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The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

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However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

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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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Don't keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions.

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Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.

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In Aryans' Discipline, to build a friendship is to build wealth, To maintain a friendship is to maintain wealth and To end a friendship is to end wealth.

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To stop suffering, stop greediness. Greediness is a source of suffering.

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Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel. Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.

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Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.

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