Buddhist Quotes - Page 30

• One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.

  Gautama Buddha

  Defeat, Refrain, Harm

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• Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt

  Gautama Buddha

  Love Is, Fleeting, Emotion

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• The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.

  Gautama Buddha

  Integrity, Men, Self

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• In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

  Gautama Buddha

  Rain, House, Meditation

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• Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.

  Gautama Buddha

  Attention, Pay, Immortality

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• Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

  Gautama Buddha

  Clever, Men, Indulge In

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• Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy.

  Gautama Buddha

  Indulge In, Joy, Sensual

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• Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.

  Gautama Buddha

  Horse, Sleep, Intelligent

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• With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Evil, Mind

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• Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

  Gautama Buddha

  Death, Flower, Sleep

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• Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.

  Gautama Buddha

  Beautiful, Flower, Men

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• Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Flower, Men

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• Sandalwood, tagara, lotus, jasmine - the fragrance of virtue is unrivalled by such kinds of perfume.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lotuses, Jasmine, Kind

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• Long is the night for the sleepless. Long is the road for the weary. Long is samsara (the cycle of continued rebirth) for the foolish, who have not recognised the true teaching.

  Gautama Buddha

  Teaching, Night, Long

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• 'I've got children', 'I've got wealth.' This is the way a fool brings suffering on himself. He does not even own himself, so how can he have children or wealth?

  Gautama Buddha

  Children, Suffering, Doe

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• A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Ignorance, Men

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• Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Men, Spoons

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• A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Thinking, Long, Suffering

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• Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.

  Gautama Buddha

  Fire, Doe, Deeds

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• Few are those among men who have crossed over to the other shore, while the rest of mankind runs along the bank. However those who follow the principles of the well-taught Truth will cross over to the other shore, out of the dominion of Death, hard though it is to escape.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Men, Principles

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• Journey over, sorrowless, freed in every way, and with all bonds broken - for such a man there is no more distress.

  Gautama Buddha

  Journey, Men, Broken

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• The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another.

  Gautama Buddha

  Swans, Pool, Pleasure

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• He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release - the way of such a person is hard to follow, like the path of birds through the sky.

  Gautama Buddha

  Dwelling Place, Sky, Bird

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• Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.

  Gautama Buddha

  Way, Speak, Righteous

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• They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma. Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.

  Gautama Buddha

  Strong, Determination, Mean

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