Gautama Buddha Quotes, Wise Quotes, Teacher Quotes

So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, 'This contemplative is our teacher.' When you know for yourselves that, 'These qualities are unskillful; these qualities are blameworthy; these qualities are criticized by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to harm & to suffering' - then you should abandon them.

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When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.

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Remember, the greatest gift to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.

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Live happily, not hating even those who are hostile. Live peacefully even amongst those that hate.

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A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.

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Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

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Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.

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Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already.

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To eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat.

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"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.

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Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.

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Dharma is not upheld by talking about it. Dharma is upheld by living in harmony with it.

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On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.

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If you are tossed about by doubts, full of strong thoughtless passions, and yearning only for that which is detrimental, your thirst will grow stronger and stronger, unquenched, and your pain will grow with your defilements.

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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.

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I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that I will fall heir.

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Sustaining a loving heart, even for a moment, makes one a spiritual being.

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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

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Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind.

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All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.

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