Gautama Buddha Quotes

‎You only lose that which you cling to.

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The four catagories of existance, non-existance, both existance and non-existance, and neither existance nor non-existance, are spiderwebs among spiderwebs which can never take hold of the enormous bird of reality

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Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.

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The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful.

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No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free.

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Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up and down, the symbol of this continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering, and dying. (It) is constantly changing from moment to moment, (as lives) follow continuously one upon the other through inconceivable periods of time. Of this Samsara, a single lifetime constitutes only a vanishingly tiny fraction.

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There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

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If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.

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For the wakeful one whose mind is quiet, whose thoughts are undisturbed, who has relinquished judgement and blame, there is no fear.

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It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

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Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine. Believe it only because you yourself know it to be true.

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Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you.

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Anyone who is not working toward the truth is missing the whole point of living.

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Teach you? I cannot teach you. Go; experience for yourself

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The gift of truth excels all other gifts.

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A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.

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Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.

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We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis.

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One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.

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Our good and bad deeds follow us almost like a shadow.

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