Buddhist Quotes - Page 29

• He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Doe, Noble

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• Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves.

  Gautama Buddha

  Truth, Lamps, Looks

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• I have passed in ignorance through a cycle of many rebirths, seeking the builder of the house. Continuous rebirth is a painful thing. But now, housebuilder, I have found you out. You will not build me a house again. All your rafters are broken, your ridge-pole shattered. My mind is free from active thought, and has made an end of craving.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pain, Ignorance, Found You

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• A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Kind Man, Use

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• When we feel happy and peaceful, our happiness and peace radiates around us, and others can enjoy it as well. This is called 'the enjoyment of others of our body of bliss'.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Peace, Body

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• Joyful is the accumulation of good work.

  Gautama Buddha

  Work, Joyful, Accumulation

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• By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Evil, Three

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• Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Men, Order

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• A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Peace, Men

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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, Real, Attachment

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• When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed out, a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Men, Errors

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• Freed by full realization and at peace, the mind of such a man is at peace, and his speech and action peaceful. He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.

  Gautama Buddha

  Faith, Cutting, Men

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• A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

  Gautama Buddha

  Brain, Fool, Disadvantages

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• Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Light, Attachment, Shining

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• When a man venerates those worthy of veneration, be they Buddhas or their disciples, who have transcended all obstacles and passed beyond sorrow and tears - venerating such as these, whose passions are extinguished and for whom there is no further source for fear, no one can calculate how great his merit is.

  Gautama Buddha

  Fear, Passion, Men

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• Dispassion is the best of mental states. . . .

  Gautama Buddha

  States, Best Of Me

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• Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.

  Gautama Buddha

  Attachment, Names, Suffering

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• The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.

  Gautama Buddha

  Change, Wise, Pain

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• The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering after trinkets, children and wives, that, say the wise, is the strong fetter. It drags one down, and loose as it feels, it is hard to break. Breaking this fetter, people renounce the world, free from longing and abandoning sensuality.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Strong, Children

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• Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.

  Gautama Buddha

  Spring, Cutting, Justice

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• Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does not put them into practice.

  Gautama Buddha

  Beautiful, Flower, Practice

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• But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.

  Gautama Buddha

  Justice, Water, Sorrow

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• The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable.

  Gautama Buddha

  Self, Discipline, Masters

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• Don't blindly believe what I say. Don't believe me because others convince you of my words. Don't believe anything you see, read, or hear from others, whether of authority, religious teachers or texts.

  Gautama Buddha

  Teacher, Religious, Believe

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• Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances.

  Gautama Buddha

  Logic, Appearance, Deceived

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