Gautama Buddha Quotes, Strong Quotes, Buddhist Quotes

If you are tossed about by doubts, full of strong thoughtless passions, and yearning only for that which is detrimental, your thirst will grow stronger and stronger, unquenched, and your pain will grow with your defilements.

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Live happily, not hating even those who are hostile. Live peacefully even amongst those that hate.

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Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you."

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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

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Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.

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It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear.

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Let us live most happily, free from hatred in the midst of the hateful; Let us remain free from hatred in the midst of people who hate.

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Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.

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Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.

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To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat.

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Why cling to the pain and the wrongs of yesterday? Why hold on to the very things that keep you from hope and love.

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Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

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Dignity and quiet joy in all that we do are the expression of perfect concentration and perfect wisdom.

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Treat others with respect. How you treat others will be how they treat you.

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Those who walk in the Way should avoid sensualism as those who carry hay would avoid coming near the fire.

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Live in joy and love even among those who hate; live in joy and peace even among the troubled.

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Let all-embracing thoughts for all beings be yours.

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

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I teach one thing and one only: that is, suffering and the end of suffering.

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