Buddhist Quotes - Page 30

• Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion.

  Gautama Buddha

  Giving Up, Way, Authority

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• Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non-virtuous things. Once you have discovered for yourself give up the bad and embrace the good.

  Gautama Buddha

  Giving Up, Real, Embrace

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• When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Mindfulness, Decay

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• Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning and end. What if I searched for that which underlies all creation, that which is nirvana, the perfect freedom from unconditioned existence?

  Gautama Buddha

  Perfect, What If, Suffering

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• After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.

  Gautama Buddha

  Reality, Clarity, Truth And Knowledge

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• I knew that most people never see this reality because they attach to the material aspect of the world. Illusions of self and other fill their vision. I also realized there are those with little dust limiting their vision.

  Gautama Buddha

  Reality, Self, Dust

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• It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is possible.

  Gautama Buddha

  Real, Joy, Suffering

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• For those who are ready the door to the deathless state is open. If you have ears give up the conditions that bind you and enter in.

  Gautama Buddha

  Giving Up, Doors, Ears

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• It is in this way that I went forth to teach.

  Gautama Buddha

  Way, Teach

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• Overcome your uncertainties and free yourself from dwelling on sorrow. When you delight in existence, you will awaken, and become a guide to those in need, revealing the path to many.

  Gautama Buddha

  Dwelling, Sorrow, Free Yourself

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• As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good.

  Gautama Buddha

  Evil, Water, Buckets

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• It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pain, Ignorance, Greatest Fear

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• Those who speak much are blamed, those who speak little are blamed. In this world there are none who are not blamed. Try not to blame.

  Gautama Buddha

  Trying, World, Littles

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• You must take action yourself, for Buddhas only teach the way.

  Gautama Buddha

  Way, Action, Teach

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• How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath.

  Gautama Buddha

  Practice, Meditation, Doe

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• Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.

  Gautama Buddha

  Feelings, Desire, Mindfulness

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• Live contemplating the body. Contemplate internally and externally. Contemplate the origination of things in the body. Contemplate the dissolution of things in the body.

  Gautama Buddha

  Body, Contemplating, Dissolution

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• How does one stay mindful? Where feelings are known as they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. Thoughts are known as they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. Perceptions are known they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. This is how a monk stays awake.

  Gautama Buddha

  Feelings, Perception, Passing Away

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• Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence... Enter into rapture and pleasure born of silence derived of concentration and awareness that is free from thought and fabrication.

  Gautama Buddha

  Silence, Mind, Noble

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• If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily.

  Gautama Buddha

  Other Worlds, Anxiety, Done

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• For one who is a learner and who has not yet come to master their mind, but who dwells aspiring for peace from that which binds, making it a matter concerning himself, I know of no other thing as helpful as giving close attention to the mind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Giving, Mind, Attention

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• By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mind, Purification, Defilement

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• Through effort you will cross any raging flood, through energy you will pass any sorrow.

  Gautama Buddha

  Effort, Sorrow, Energy

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• By three things the wise person may be known. What three? He sees a shortcoming as it is. When he sees it, he tries to correct it. And when another acknowledges a shortcoming, the wise one forgives it as he should.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Forgiving, Trying

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• The discipline which I have imparted to you will lead you when I am gone. Practice mindfulness diligently, to attain the goal of awakening.

  Gautama Buddha

  Practice, Discipline, Goal

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