Top 100 Gautama Quotes
#1. A man asked Gautama Buddha, "I want happiness."
Buddha said, "First remove "I," that's Ego, then remove "want," that's Desire.
See now you are left with only "Happiness.
Gautama Buddha
#2. The life of Gautama Buddha illustrates the power of service, compassion and, most importantly, renunciation. He was convinced that material wealth is not the sole goal.
Narendra Modi
#3. Buddhist Barbie"
In the 5th century B.C.
an Indian philosopher
Gautama teaches "All is emptiness"
and "There is no self."
In the 20th century A.D.
Barbie agrees, but wonders how a man
with such a belly could pose,
smiling, and without a shirt.
Denise Duhamel
#4. The Gautama Buddha instructs me to walk away from illness. But he wasn't attached to a drip.
Derek Jarman
#5. There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth. Not going all the way, and not starting. Siddhrtha Gautama
Seth Godin
#6. Atheism is unprovable, so uninteresting. However unlikely it is, we can never be certain that God once existed - and has now shot off to infinity, where no one can ever find him ... Like Gautama Buddha, I take no position on this subject.
Arthur C. Clarke
#7. When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory. So it happened to Gautama.
H.G.Wells
#8. Siddhartha Gautama said that "life has dissatisfaction" (dukkha). He didn't say that "life is suffering and nothing but suffering" - only that we all suffer in larger or smaller ways.
Doug Kraft
#9. The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul ... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He does not want to give you an ideology, because every ideology creates its own slavery.
Rajneesh
#10. Above, in discussing the perceptive notions of Jesus, remarkable concepts of Plato or the highly introspective lessons of Gautama and Lao Tzu, it took considerable discussion to explore the meaning and relate it to How Life Works. Islam presents no such deep pool of thought to pierce.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#11. The founders of the great world religions, Gautama Buddha, Jesus, Lao-Tzu, Mohammed, all seem to have striven for a worldwide brotherhood of man; but none of them could develop institutions which would include the enemy, the unbeliever.
Geoffrey Gorer
#13. After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.
Gautama Buddha
#14. Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.
Gautama Buddha
#15. Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out
from behind the clouds!
Shine
Gautama Buddha
#16. One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.
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#17. Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?
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#18. Men give up one thing to take up another, but in spite of numerous changes they do not find peace. They are no better than monkeys who let go one bough to take hold of another, only to let it go again.
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#19. Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.
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#20. Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.
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#21. The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.
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#22. No clouds gathered in the skies and the polluted streams became clear, whilst celestial music rang through the air and the angels rejoiced with gladness. With no selfish or partial joy but for the sake of the law they rejoiced, for creation engulfed in the ocean of pain was now to obtain release.
Gautama Buddha
#23. Do not look at the faults of what others have done or not done; observe what you yourself have done or not done.
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#24. That which goeth up must needs come down; and that which is down must needs go up. But Brahma has ordained that the that that goeth up is seldom the same as the that that hath gone down.
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#25. Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree.
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#26. Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a lamp overturned and re-lit, illuminating the darkness.
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#27. Here will I live in the rainy season, here in the autumn and in the summer: thus muses the fool. He realizes not the danger (of death).
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#28. I, ever knowing the living beings Who tread the Path and those who do not In response to those who may be saved Preach to them a variety of dharmas, Each time having this thought: 'How may I cause the beings To contrive to enter the Unexcelled Path and quickly to perfect the Buddha-body?'
Gautama Buddha
#29. Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
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#31. Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.
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#32. It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.
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#34. Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.
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#35. Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.
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#36. The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.
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#37. In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony
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#38. If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe.
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#39. In Aryans' Discipline, to build a friendship is to build wealth, To maintain a friendship is to maintain wealth and To end a friendship is to end wealth.
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#40. Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.
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#41. I will purify my bodily actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my verbal actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my mental actions through repeated reflection. That's how you should train yourself.
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#42. We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis ...
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#43. If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily.
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#44. If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.
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#45. Be it known that Men of dull faculties and slight wisdom, They who cling proudly to signs, Cannot believe in this Dharma. Now I, joyfully and fearlessly, In the midst of the bodhisattvas Frankly casting aside my expedient devices, Merely preach the Unexcelled Path.
Gautama Buddha
#46. In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?
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#47. In this world,
hate never dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible. - The Buddha
Gautama Buddha
#48. Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering ... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.
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#49. Right perspective is no perspective or all perspectives.
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#50. The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.
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#51. In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water to nourish the see we have planted; in the end, compassion is like the warmth of the sun that brings the fruit to ripening.
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#52. Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.
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#53. To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.
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#54. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
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#55. Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.
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#56. By three things the wise person may be known. What three? He sees a shortcoming as it is. When he sees it, he tries to correct it. And when another acknowledges a shortcoming, the wise one forgives it as he should.
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#57. Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.
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#58. In protecting oneself, others are protected; In protecting others, oneself is protected.
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#59. Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy.
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#60. Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence ... Enter into rapture and pleasure born of silence derived of concentration and awareness that is free from thought and fabrication.
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#61. Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.
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#62. One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realizing this a mon should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.
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#63. Suffering, if it does not diminish love,
will transport us to the furthest shore.
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#64. You yourself must earnestly practise, the enlightened ones only proclaim the path
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#65. Until he has unconditional and unbiased love for all beings, man will not find peace.
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#66. Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine. Believe it only because you yourself know it to be true.
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#68. To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.
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#69. Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
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#71. Success isn't the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
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#72. Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non-virtuous things. Once you have discovered for yourself give up the bad and embrace the good.
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#73. You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.
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#74. You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred
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#76. The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion.
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#77. Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.
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#78. Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.
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#80. As solid rock remains unmoved by the wind, so the wise remain unmoved by blame and praise.
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#81. You must make the effort yourself. The Masters only point the way.
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#82. Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.
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#83. It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
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#84. In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.
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#85. Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.
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#86. Why are you so sure parallel lines exist? Believe nothing, merely because you have been told it, or because it is traditional, or because you have imagined it.
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#87. Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.
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#88. Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.
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#89. Dharma is not upheld by talking about it. Dharma is upheld by living in harmony with it ...
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#90. How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are.
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#91. You can search the entire universe and not find a single being more worthy of love than you.
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#92. Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of a mind that is awake and observing.
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#93. Follow the truth of the way. Reflect upon it. Make it your own. Live it. It will always sustain you.
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#95. Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course.
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#96. The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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#97. Love yourself and be awake- Today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, Then teach others, And so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing- Straighten yourself. You are your only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, And discover your master.
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#98. Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.
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#99. Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith
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#100. Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.
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