Top 100 Gautama The Buddha Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.
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#3. Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.
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#4. Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out
from behind the clouds!
Shine
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#5. One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.
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#6. Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.
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#7. Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.
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#8. 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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#9. 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.
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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. 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?'
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#17. Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.
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#18. It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.
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#20. Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.
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#21. The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.
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#22. In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony
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#23. 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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#24. Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.
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#25. 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.
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#26. 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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#27. In this world,
hate never dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible. - The Buddha
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#28. 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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#29. The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.
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#30. 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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#31. Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.
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#32. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.
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#37. 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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#38. Suffering, if it does not diminish love,
will transport us to the furthest shore.
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#39. You yourself must earnestly practise, the enlightened ones only proclaim the path
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#41. To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.
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#42. Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
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#44. Success isn't the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
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#45. 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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#46. 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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#47. The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion.
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#48. 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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#49. 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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#51. As solid rock remains unmoved by the wind, so the wise remain unmoved by blame and praise.
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#52. You must make the effort yourself. The Masters only point the way.
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#53. 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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#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. You can search the entire universe and not find a single being more worthy of love than you.
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#57. 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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#58. Follow the truth of the way. Reflect upon it. Make it your own. Live it. It will always sustain you.
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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. 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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#62. 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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#63. And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay.
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#64. Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth.
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#65. Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.
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#66. The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.
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#67. Few are those among men who have crossed over to the other shore, while the rest of mankind runs along the bank. However those who follow the principles of the well-taught Truth will cross over to the other shore, out of the dominion of Death, hard though it is to escape.
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#68. Let the disciple cultivate love without measure towards all beings. Let him cultivate towards the whole world, above, below, around, a heart of love unstinted ... For in all the world this state of heart is best.
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#69. (They) were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia.
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#70. The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old.
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#71. Mutual respect and mutual listening are the foundations of harmony within the family.
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#72. The more fully we give our energy, the more it returns to us.
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#73. The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.
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#74. Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.
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#75. Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.
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#76. Offend in neither word nor deed. Eat with moderation. Live in your heart. Seek the highest consciousness. Master yourself according to the law. This is the simple teaching of the awakened.
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#77. Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.
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#78. At the bottom of things, most people want to be understood and appreciated.
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#79. When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.
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#80. Greater than all the joys
Of heaven and earth,
Greater still than dominion
Over all the worlds,
Is the joy of reaching the stream.
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#81. Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already.
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#82. I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.
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#83. It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.
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#84. The more completely we give of ourselves, the more completely the world gives back to us.
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#85. Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief.
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#87. Among all the sutras I have expounded,
Lotus Sutra is the first and foremost!
If you are able to uphold the Lotus Sutra,
it means you are able to uphold the body of a Buddha!
(LS 11: 3.35)
Lotus Sutra, Chapter 11, Section 3, Paragraph 35
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#88. This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.
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#89. There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.
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#90. Dwell not on the faults and shortcomings of others; instead, seek clarity about your own.
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#91. The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, only you're the one who gets burned.
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#92. If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart, great indeed is this Way.
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#93. Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
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#94. Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.
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#96. How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it
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#97. The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next
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#98. "Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.
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#99. 'As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I.' Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill.
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#100. Better it is to live alone; there is no fellowship with a fool. Live alone and do no evil; be carefree like an elephant in the elephant forest.
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