Gautama Buddha - Mind Quotes

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As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion will break through an unreflecting mind.

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Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.
Whatever a mother, father or other kinsman might do for you, the well-directed mind can do for you even better.

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To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

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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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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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A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated — this is the greatest blessing

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Monks, there are other things which are very deep (profound), very hard to understand, very difficult to perceive, so holy and sacred, unreached by means of mind, so subtle, that they are only to be understood and experienced by the wise. These things were perceived clearly, seen clearly and were discarded by the Tathagata, and by this act based on the truth that people praise and revered Tathagatha. What are those things?

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This is deathless, the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging.

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