Buddhist Quotes - Page 22

• Resolutely train yourself to attain peace

  Gautama Buddha

  Train

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• Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pleasure, Should, Accumulation

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• Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kindness, Liars, Men

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• Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.

  Gautama Buddha

  Realizing, Settling, Dhammapada

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• Whoever doesn't flare up at someone who's angry wins a battle hard to win.

  Gautama Buddha

  Winning, Flare Up, Battle

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• You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.

  Gautama Buddha

  Way, Strive

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• If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

  Gautama Buddha

  Feet, Mind, Suffering

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• In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.

  Gautama Buddha

  Evil, Four, Deeds

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• The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Buddhism

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• Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape from the results of evil deeds.

  Gautama Buddha

  Ocean, Sky, Evil

  Gautama Buddha (2017). “Zen Puppies: Meditations for the Wise Minds of Puppy Lovers”, p.171, Mango Media Inc.

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• Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.

  Gautama Buddha

  Evil, Speech, Speak

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• Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.

  Gautama Buddha

  Self, Doe, Speech

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• There are these two kinds of gifts: a gift of material things & a gift of the Dhamma. Of the two, this is supreme: a gift of the Dhamma.

  Gautama Buddha

  Two, Kind, Materials

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• When a monk is an arahant, with his fermentations ended - one who has reached fulfillment, done the task, laid down the burden, attained the true goal, totally destroyed the fetter of becoming, and is released through right gnosis - the thought doesn't occur to him that 'There is someone better than me,' or 'There is someone equal to me,' or 'There is someone worse than me.'

  Gautama Buddha

  Gnosis, Goal, Tasks

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• When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.

  Gautama Buddha

  Water, Greed, Lotuses

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• Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

  Gautama Buddha

  Ocean, Teaching, Discipline

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• Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Suffering, Real Buddhist

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• Radiate boundless love towards the entire world - above, below, and across - unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.

  Gautama Buddha

  Ill Will, Enmity, World

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• If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

  Gautama Buddha

  Helping Others, Men, Rivers

  "The Discourse Collection. Selected Texts from the Sutta Nipata". Book by John D. Ireland, www.accesstoinsight.org. 1995.

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• The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Grieving, Decay

  "The Discourse Collection. Selected Texts from the Sutta Nipata". Book by John D. Ireland, www.accesstoinsight.org. 1995.

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• The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false.

  Gautama Buddha

  Should, Wells, Thirds

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• When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself.

  Gautama Buddha

  Watches

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• He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.

  Gautama Buddha

  Giving Up, Wrath, Snakes

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• Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.

  Gautama Buddha

  Rivers, Noise, Flow

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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

  Blessed, Discipline, Community

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