Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.
Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.
Let your mind become clear like a still forest pool.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. - Buddha No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear.
From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry.
When an evil-doer, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maliciously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him, for the evil-doer is insulting himself by trying to insult you.
There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.
How long the night to the watchman, How long the road to the weary traveller, How long the wandering of many lives To the fool who misses the way.
The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.
How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath.
Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain.
When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known.
The masters only point the way. But if you meditate And follow the dharma You will free yourself from desire. 'Everything arises and passes away.' When you see this, you are above sorrow. This is the shining way.
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
Thought-habits can harden into character. So watch your thoughts.
If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart, great indeed is this Way.
Let go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing You go beyond sorrow.
Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.
You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death
One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.
What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind. If a man speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering will follow him as the wheel of the cart follows the beast that draws the cart. If a man speaks or acts with a pure mind, joy follows him as his own shadow.
If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the way. But if you cannot find Friend or master to go with you, Travel on alone.
Conquer a liar with truth.
To abstain from lying is essentially wholesome.
