Gautama Buddha Quotes

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He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.

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Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people.

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Though a fool spend all his life with wise men, he will know the truth no more than a spoon knows the taste of the soup.

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But truly, Ananda, it is nothing strange that human beings should die.

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Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.

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Faith is the best wealth for a man in this world. Righteousness when well practised brings happiness. Truth is the sweetest of flavours. They say the life of one living by wisdom is the best.

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I will not take final Nirvana until I have nuns and female disciples who are accomplished…until I have laywomen followers…who will…. teach the Dhamma

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Pleasant feeling is impermanent, conditioned, dependently-arisen, bound to decay, to vanish, to fade away, to cease—and so too are painful feeling and neutral feeling. So anyone who, on experiencing a pleasant feeling, thinks: "This is my self", must, at the cessation of that pleasant feeling, think: "My self has gone!"

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Whatever is felt is within suffering.
Soma and Mara An adapation of a translation by C. A. F. Rhys-Davids

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Women, with their two-fingered wisdom [i. e. stupid], have a difficult time [understanding what I teach].

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Whereas some ascetics and Brahmins remain addicted to attending such shows as dancing, singing, music, displays, recitations, hand-music, cymbals and drums, fairy-shows, acrobatic and conjuring tricks, combats of elephants, buffaloes, bulls, goats, rams, cocks and quail, fighting with staves, boxing, wrestling, sham-fights, parades, manoeuvres and military reviews, the ascetic Gotama refrains from attending such displays.

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Rahula, develop meditation that is like water.... Just as people wash clean things and dirty things, excrement, urine, spittle, pus, and blood in water, and the water is not horrified, humiliated, and disgusted because of that, so too, Rahula, develop meditation that is like water.

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Conquer anger with love, evil with good, meanness with generosity, and lies with truth.

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The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

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Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.

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It is just as if a man were to draw out a reed from its sheath. He might think: This is the reed, this is the sheath, reed and sheath are different. Now the reed has been pulled from the sheath. … In the same way a monk with mind concentrated directs his mind to the production of a mind-made body. He draws that body out of this body.

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