Gautama Buddha - Beings Quotes

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If it were not for women being admitted into [our order], my teachings would have lasted 1000 years, now they will not last 500.

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Just as with her own life, A mother shields from hurt, Her own son, her only child, Let all-embracing thoughts For all beings be yours.

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In whom there is no sympathy for living beings: know him as an outcast.

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

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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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Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Just as the candle won't be shortened, one's happiness never decreases by being shared.

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Whereas some ascetics and Brahmins remain addicted to such unedifying conversation as about kings, robbers, ministers, armies, dangers, wars, food, drink, clothes, beds, garlands, perfumes, relatives, carriages, villages, towns and cities, countries, women, heroes, street- and well-gossip, talk of the departed, desultory chat, speculations about land and sea, talk about being and non-being, the ascetic Gotama refrains from such conversation.

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Whatever living beings there may be — feeble or strong, long, stout, or of medium size, short, small, large, those seen or those unseen, those dwelling far or near, those who are born as well as those yet to be born — may all beings have happy minds.

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