Gautama Buddha Quotes - Page 43

• Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Teacher, Religious

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• The discipline which I have imparted to you will lead you when I am gone. Practice mindfulness diligently, to attain the goal of awakening.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Practice, Discipline

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• As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Thinking

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• Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

  Gautama Buddha

  Suicide, Buddhist, Blessing

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• Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mind, Dhammapada, Mischief

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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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Blessed, Discipline

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• Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Thinking, Mind

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• The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the Truth beats all other joys, and the cessation of desire conquers all suffering

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Truth, Joy

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• Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sorrow, Mischief, Turns

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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.'

  Gautama Buddha

  Past, Self, Feelings

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• Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!

  Gautama Buddha

  Autumn, Cutting, Self

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Selfish, Jealous

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• Therefore, do not eat meat which will cause terror among people, because it hinders the truth of emancipation; not to eat meat? this is the mark of the wise.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, People

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• (The real brahmin is the one who:) ... has crossed beyond duality ...knows no this shore, other shore, or both ...(is) settled in mind ... without inflowing thoughts ...is without attachment ...endures undisturbed criticism, ill-treatment and bonds, (and is) strong in patience ...(is) without anger, devout, upright, free from craving, disciplined and in his last body ...has experienced the end of his suffering here in this life, who has set down the burden, freed!

  Gautama Buddha

  Strong, Buddhist, Real

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• Let the disciple cultivate love without measure towards all beings. Let him cultivate towards the whole world, above, below, around, a heart of love unstinted....For in all the world this state of heart is best.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Heart, World

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• Give thanks for what had been given to you,
  However little. Be pure, never falter.

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  Giving, Littles, Thanks

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• Joy and openness come from our own contented heart.

  Gautama Buddha

  Heart, Joy, Openness

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• Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he loves even a single being, Good will follow. But the Noble One with compassionate heart for all mankind, generates abounding good.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Buddhist, Heart

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• If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it.

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  Religious, Religion, Would Be

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• For one who is a learner and who has not yet come to master their mind, but who dwells aspiring for peace from that which binds, making it a matter concerning himself, I know of no other thing as helpful as giving close attention to the mind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Giving, Mind

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• Meat-eating is condemned by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Sravakas; if one devours meat out of shamelessness he will always be devoid of sense.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Meat Eating, Bodhisattva

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• In the light of his vision that is the perspective that allows him to be grateful that things are not worse he has found his freedom and joy: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Light

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• Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor.

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  Buddhist, Men, Conquer

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• What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

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  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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• Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on the mental and physical aggregates

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  Inspiration, Chariots, Collections

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