Pāli Canon - Tathagata Quotes

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Dhamma has been taught by me without making a distinction between esoteric and exoteric. For the Tathagata has not the closed fist of a teacher in respect of mental states.

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'Now, monks, I declare to you: all conditioned things are of a nature to decay—strive on untiringly.' These were the Tathagata's last words.

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In regard to things that are past, future and present the Tathagata is a speaker at a suitable time, a speaker of fact, on what has bearing, of Dhamma, of Discipline. Therefore is he called Tathagata.

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Avoiding both these extremes, [indulgence of sense pleasures, devotion to self-mortification] the Tathagata has realized the Middle Path: it gives vision, it gives knowledge, and it leads to calm, to insight, to enlightenment, to Nirvana.

First Sermon of the Buddha

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