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Gautama Buddha Quotes about Passion

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

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

Peace, Passion, Serenity

From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry.

Passion, Worry, Meditation

The world is full of suffering. Birth is suffering, decre- pitude is suffering, sickness and death are sufferings. To face a man of hatred is suffering, to be separated from a beloved one is suffering, to be vainly struggling to satisfy one's needs is suffering. In fact, life that is not free from desire and passion is always involved with suffering.

Struggle, Passion, Men

Those who are pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme Way. It is like polishing a mirror, which becomes bright when the dust is removed. Remove your passions, and have no hankering.

Passion, Heart, Mirrors

Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.

Passion, Lust, Awareness

Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released, but householders entertain no desire to be relieved from the ties of family. When a man's passion is aroused nothing prevents him from ruining himself. Even into the jaws of a tiger will he jump. Those who are thus drowned in the filth of passion are called the ignorant. Those who are able to overcome it are saintly Arhats.

Passion, Men, Ties

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.

Running, Passion, Men

An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is shelter. Whoever follows impure thoughts Suffers in this world and the next. In both worlds he suffers And how greatly.

Strong, Rain, Passion

There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river.

Hate, Passion, Rushing

There is nothing like lust. Lust may be said to be the most powerful passion. Fortunately, we have but one thing which is more powerful. If the thirst for truth were weaker than passion, how many of us in the world would be able to follow the way of righteous?

Powerful, Passion, Meditation

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

Buddhist, Passion, Fire

Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

The deluding passions are inexhaustible. I vow to extinguish them all. The number of beings is endless. I vow to save them all. The Truth cannot be told. I vow to explain it. The Way which cannot be followed is unattainable. I vow to attain it.

Passion, Numbers, Unattainable

The hunger of passions is the greatest disease.

Buddhist, Passion, Disease

Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.

Passion, Desire, Thorns

Gautama Buddha (2017). “Zen Kittens”, p.27, Mango Media Inc.

When a man venerates those worthy of veneration, be they Buddhas or their disciples, who have transcended all obstacles and passed beyond sorrow and tears - venerating such as these, whose passions are extinguished and for whom there is no further source for fear, no one can calculate how great his merit is.

Buddhist, Fear, Passion

When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish to follow the Way, make your own hearts clean from the dirt of evil passion, and your conduct will be unimpeachable.

Passion, Heart, Men

There is no fire like passion: there is no evil and hatred.

Passion, Fire, Evil

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