Buddhist Quotes - Page 27

• Those who awaken never rest in one place. Like swans, they rise and leave the lake. On the air they rise and fly an invisible course. Their food is knowledge. They live on emptiness. They have seen how to break free. Who can follow them?

  Gautama Buddha

  Lakes, Swans, Air

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• The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.

  Gautama Buddha

  Strength, Character, Shows

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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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Teacher, Book, Rely Upon

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• When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace.

  Gautama Buddha

  Heart, Wish, Ends

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• It is our very search for perfection outside of ourselves that causes suffering.

  Unknown

  Perfection, Suffering, Causes

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• Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he clings neither to sense-pleasures, nor does he cling to views, nor to precepts and vows, nor to a Self-doctrine. Not clinking, he is not disturbed; not disturbed, he attains individually nibbana.

  Gautama Buddha

  Ignorance, Attachment, Self

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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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Conquer, Should

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• Love and serve the world through your work.

  Gautama Buddha

  World

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• I know what I gave them; I don't know what they received.

  Gautama Buddha

  Knows

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• Let us live in joy, never falling sick like those who hate us. Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among those who hate.

  Gautama Buddha

  Hate, Fall, Sick

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• He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.

  Gautama Buddha

  Suffering, Causes

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• It is our minds that create this world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mind, World, This World

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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, Heart, Mind

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• To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

  Gautama Buddha

  Vegetarianism, Steps, Animal Rights

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• May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Animal, Suffering, May

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• Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen. Know all things to be like this: As the moon in a bright sky In some clear lake reflected, Though to that lake the moon has never moved. Know all things to be like this: As an echo that derives From music, sounds, and weeping, Yet in that echo is no melody. Know all things to be like this: As a magician makes illusions Of horses, oxen, carts and other things, Nothing is as it appears.

  Gautama Buddha

  Dream, Horse, Moon

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• When you have great joy, you will become Buddhas!

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Joy, Great Joy

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• Consider Others as Yourself.

  Gautama Buddha

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• Wherever we go, wherever we remain, the results of our actions follow us.

  Gautama Buddha

  Our Actions, Action, Results

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• I am always at the beginning.

  Gautama Buddha

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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

  Selfish, Jealous, Men

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• If you don't see God in the next person you meet, look no further.

  Gautama Buddha

  Looks, Next, Persons

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• Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream

  Gautama Buddha

  Summer, Dream, Stars

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• All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?

  Gautama Buddha

  Hurt, Love Life, Violence

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• Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others - he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.

  Gautama Buddha

  Blessing, Men, Doe

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