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Gautama Buddha Quotes - Page 42

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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

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

Buddhist, Reality, Bird

Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me.

Teaching

Joyously participate in the sorrows of others.

Sorrow

When you have great joy, you will become Buddhas!

Happiness, Buddhist, Joy

He is able who think he is able.

Believe, Thinking, Able

As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddhist, Inspiration, Thinking

As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births.

Long, Doers, Wheels

Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease.

Buddhist, Giving, Sensual

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

Buddhist, Practice, Discipline

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

Suicide, Buddhist, Blessing

Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.

Suffering, Noble, Unions

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

Wisdom, Teacher, Religious

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Peace, Character, Roots

Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you.

Mind, Dhammapada, Mischief

I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate, independent of words and transmitted beyond doctrine. This I have entrusted to Mahakashyapa.

Buddhist, Independent, Eye

Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the Discipline. If they are neither traceable in the Discourses nor verifiable by the Discipline, one must conclude thus: 'Certainly, this is not the Blessed One's utterance; this has been misunderstood by that bhikkhu - or by that community, or by those elders, or by that elder.' In that way, bhikkhus, you should reject it.

Buddhist, Blessed, Discipline

Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones

Teaching, Inspiration, Mind

And so, with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings.

Heart, Animal, Cherish

The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the Truth beats all other joys, and the cessation of desire conquers all suffering

Buddhist, Truth, Joy

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

Sorrow, Mischief, Turns

Those which arise dependently are free of inherent existence.

Arise, Existence, Inherent

Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.

Men, Thinking, Mind

The method of trying to conquer hatred through hatred never succeeds in overcoming hatred. But, the method of overcoming hatred through non-hatred is eternally effective. That is why that method is described as eternal wisdom.

Hatred, Trying, Overcoming

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

Buddhist, Buddhism, Thoughtful

Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

Buddhist, Mastery, Action

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