Buddhist Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease.

  Gautama Buddha

  Giving, Sensual, Delight

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• Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mind, Remember, Burden

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• Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Liars, Evil, Conquer

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• Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.

  Gautama Buddha

  Change, Wise, Fashion

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.

  Gautama Buddha

  Stories, Deep Meaning, Produce

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• Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect

  Gautama Buddha

  Respect, Truth, Cutting

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• The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions

  Gautama Buddha

  Mind, Emotion, Luminous

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• As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Flower, Color, Sage

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• Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.

  Gautama Buddha

  Meditation, Solitude, Delight

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• Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Sorrow, Walks

  Gautama Buddha (2017). “Zen Kittens”, p.45, Mango Media Inc.

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• The four catagories of existance, non-existance, both existance and non-existance, and neither existance nor non-existance, are spiderwebs among spiderwebs which can never take hold of the enormous bird of reality

  Gautama Buddha

  Reality, Bird, Four

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• After 48 years, I have said nothing.

  Gautama Buddha

  Years, Emptiness, Said

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• What I know is like the leaves on that tree; what I teach is only a small part. But I offer it to all with an open hand. What do I not teach? Whatever is fascinating to discuss, divides people against each other, but has no bearing on putting an end to sorrow. What do I teach? Only what is necessary to take you to the other shore.

  Gautama Buddha

  Hands, People, Tree

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• The worlds originate so that truth may come and dwell therein.

  Gautama Buddha

  Truth, World, May

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