Buddhist Quotes - Page 28

• Don't keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions.

  Gautama Buddha

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Opinion

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• If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear.

  Gautama Buddha

  Water, Meditation, Upset

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• All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

  Gautama Buddha

  Challenges, Rising, Politics

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• A virtuous man or woman who is determined to develop the Supreme Enlightened Mind, should thus develop it: I have to lead all living beings to put a stop to (reincarnation) and escape (suffering), and when they have been so led, not one of them in fact stops (reincarnating) or escapes suffering. Why? Because, if a Bodhisattva believes in the notion of an ego, a personality, or a living being, he is not a true Bodhisattva.

  Gautama Buddha

  Believe, Men, Personality

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• From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?

  Gautama Buddha

  Fear, Grief, Born

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• To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Marriage, Patriotism

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• You create what you defend against.

  Gautama Buddha

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• May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to be afraid, and may those bound be free. May the powerless find power, and may people think of befriending each other. May those who find themselves in trackless, fearful wilderness- the children, the aged, the unprotected- be guarded by beneficent celestials, and may they swiftly attain Buddhahood.

  Gautama Buddha

  Children, Thinking, People

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• The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Thinking, Fool

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• This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.

  Gautama Buddha

  Autumn, Clouds, Sky

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• To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.

  Gautama Buddha

  Flower, Fine, Fragrance

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• The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Sleep, Snakes

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• Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Wise, Men

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• From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.

  Gautama Buddha

  Fear, Sorrow, Arise

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• The hunger of passions is the greatest disease.

  Gautama Buddha

  Passion, Disease, Hunger

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• There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Money, Men

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• When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

  Gautama Buddha

  Growing Up, Rain, Sorrow

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• Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.

  Gautama Buddha

  Flower, Color, Justice

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• I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate, independent of words and transmitted beyond doctrine. This I have entrusted to Mahakashyapa.

  Gautama Buddha

  Independent, Eye, Mind

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• Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.

  Gautama Buddha

  Death, Elephants, Meditation

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• He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is truly called one who is bound upstream.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mind, Longing, Sensuality

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• One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . . .

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Religious, Offering

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• Let go the past, let go the future, and let go the present (front, back, middle). Crossing to the farther shore of existence, with mind released everywhere, do not further undergo birth and decay.

  Gautama Buddha

  Letting Go, Past, Mind

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• He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Vegetarianism, Punishment

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Inflowing thoughts come to an end in those who are ever alert of mind, training themselves night and day, and ever intent on nirvana

  Gautama Buddha

  Night, Training, Mind

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