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Gautama
Buddha Quotes...
"The
Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on
the attractive
side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and
unrestrained in his food, like the
wind overcomes a rotten tree. - Gautama Buddha"
"The Tempter cannot master a man who dwells on the
distasteful side of things,
self-controlled in his senses, moderate in eating,
resolute and full of faith,
like the wind cannot move a mountain crag. - Gautama
Buddha"
"The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not
free from stains himself,
without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the
robe. - Gautama Buddha"
"In the same way that rain breaks into a house with
a bad roof, desire breaks
into the mind that has not been practising meditation. -
Gautama Buddha"
"Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads
to death. Those who pay
attention will not die, while the careless are as good as
dead already. -
Gautama Buddha"
"Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives,
whereas a clever man guards
his attention as his most precious possession. - Gautama
Buddha"
"Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the
friend of sensual pleasures.
He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy. -
Gautama Buddha"
"Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping
wide-awake, the intelligent
man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere
hack. - Gautama
Buddha"
"With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and
from restlessness, by
abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.
- Gautama Buddha"
"Seeing your body as no better than an earthen pot,
make war on Mara with the
sword of wisdom, and setting up your mind as a fortress,
defend what you have
won, remaining free from attachment. - Gautama Buddha"
"Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with
an besotted mind, like a
great flood does a sleeping village. - Gautama Buddha"
"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. - Gautama Buddha"
"Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap
of flowers, so man, subject
to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of
good karma. - Gautama
Buddha"
"Sandalwood, tagara, lotus, jasmine -- the fragrance
of virtue is unrivalled by
such kinds of perfume. - Gautama Buddha"
"Long is the night for the sleepless. Long is the
road for the weary. Long is
samsara (the cycle of continued rebirth) for the foolish,
who have not
recognised the true teaching. - Gautama Buddha"
"'I've got children', 'I've got wealth.' This is the
way a fool brings suffering
on himself. He does not even own himself, so how can he
have children or wealth?
- Gautama Buddha"
"A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby
in fact a wise man, but a
fool who considers himself wise -- that is what one
really calls a fool. -
Gautama Buddha"
"Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life,
he would still not recognise
the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the
flavour of the soup. -
Gautama Buddha"
"A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed
does not bear fruit, but
when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering. -
Gautama Buddha"
"Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once.
It follows a fool scorching
him like a smouldering fire. - Gautama Buddha"
"One may desire a spurious respect and precedence
among one's fellow monks, and
the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity
should think it was my doing.
They should accept my authority in all matters great or
small." This is a fool's
way of thinking. His self-seeking and conceit just
increase. - Gautama Buddha"
"Navvies channel water, fletchers fashion arrows,
and carpenters work on wood,
but the wise disciple themselves. - Gautama Buddha"
"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. - Gautama Buddha"
"Journey over, sorrowless, freed in every way, and
with all bonds broken -- for
such a man there is no more distress. - Gautama Buddha"
"The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation.
They take no pleasure in a
fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they
leave one resting place
after another. - Gautama Buddha"
"He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is
unattached to food, whose
dwelling place is an empty and imageless release -- the
way of such a person is
hard to follow, like the path of birds through the sky. -
Gautama Buddha"
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