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We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Speak or act with an impure mind
And trouble will follow you.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Speak or act with an pure mind
And happiness will follow you
As your shadow, unshakable.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
In this world
Hate never yet dispelled hate.
Only love dispels hate.
This is the law,
Ancient and inexhaustible.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Better than a thousand hollow words
Is one word that brings peace.
Better than a thousand hollow verses
Is one verse that brings peace.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
There is no fire like passion
No crime like hatred,
No sorrow like separation,
No sickness like hunger,
And no joy like the joy of freedom.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
You too shall pass away.
Knowing this, how can you quarrel?
Buddha
Dhammapada.
It is better to conquer yourself
Than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
Not by angels or by demons,
Heaven or hell.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
You are the source
Of all purity and impurity.
No one purifies another.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
It is better to do nothing
Than to do what is wrong.
For whatever you do, you do to yourself.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
To share happiness.
And to have done something good
Before leaving this life is sweet
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Master your words.
Master your thoughts.
Never allow your body to do harm.
Follow these three roads with purity
And you will find yourself upon the one way,
The way of wisdom.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay
Does not travel far.
But the fragrance of virtue
Rises to the heavens.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
Buddha
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha
The mind is everything; what you think you become.
Buddha
Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.
Buddha
Mahaparinibbana Sutta.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Buddha
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
Buddha
On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.
Buddha
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha
The greatest prayer is patience.
Buddha
With gentleness overcome anger.
With generosity overcome meanness.
With truth overcome deceit.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
For in craving pleasure or in nursing pain
There is only sorrow.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Never speak harsh words
For they will rebound upon you.
Angry words hurt
And the hurt rebounds.
Like a broken gong.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Let go of anger.
Let go of pride.
When you are bound by nothing
You go beyond sorrow.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
The wise have mastered
Body, word and mind.
They are the true masters.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Buddha
Kalama Sutta.
Think: Happy, at rest,
may all beings be happy at heart.
Whatever beings there may be,
weak or strong, without exception,
long, large,
middling, short,
subtle, blatant,
seen & unseen,
near & far,
born & seeking birth:
May all beings be happy at heart.
Buddha
Karaniya Metta Sutta.
Let no one deceive another
or despise anyone anywhere,
or through anger or irritation
wish for another to suffer.
Buddha
Karaniya Metta Sutta.
As a mother would risk her life
to protect her child, her only child,
even so should one cultivate a limitless heart
with regard to all beings.
With good will for the entire cosmos,
cultivate a limitless heart:
Above, below, & all around,
unobstructed, without hostility or hate.
Whether standing, walking,
sitting, or lying down,
as long as one is alert,
one should be resolved on this mindfulness.
This is called a sublime abiding
here & now.
Buddha
Karaniya Metta Sutta.
Give thanks
For what had been given to you,
However little.
Be pure, never falter.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
How easily the wind overturns a frail tee.
Seek happiness in the senses,
Indulge in food and sleep,
And you too will be uprooted.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
The wind cannot overturn a mountain.
Temptation cannot touch the man
Who is awake, strong and humble,
Who masters hiself and minds the law.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
See the false as false,
The true as true.
Look into your heart.
Follow your nature.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
In every trial
Let understanding fight for you.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Free yourself from attachment.
Know the sweet joy of the way.
How joyful to look upon the awakened
And to keep company with the wise.
How long the road to the man
Who travels the road with the fool.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
However many holy words you read,
However many you speak,
What good will they do you
If you do not act upon them?
Buddha
Dhammapada.
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.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Your worst enemy cannot harm you
As much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
But once mastered,
No one can help you as much,
Not even your father or your mother.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Health, contentment and trust
Are your greatest possessions,
And freedom your greatest joy.
Look within.
Be still.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Understand that the body
Is merely the foam of a wave,
The shadow of a shadow.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Desire never crosses the path
Of virtuous and wakeful men.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Whoever follows impure thoughts
Suffers in this world and the next.
In both worlds he suffers
And how greatly.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
The true master lives in truth,
In goodness and restraint,
Non-violence, moderation and purity.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
The ignorant man is an ox.
He grows in size, not in wisdom.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
How easy it is to see your brother's faults,
How hard it is to face your own.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
There is pleasure
And there is bliss.
Forgo the first to possess the second.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Fresh milk takes time to sour.
So a fool's mischief
Takes time to catch up with him.
Like the embers of a fire
It smoulders within him.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Do what you have to do
Resolutely, with all your heart.
The traveller who hesitates
Only raises dust on the road.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
The wise man tells you
Where you have fallen
And where you yet may fall - Invaluable secrets!
Follow him, follow the way.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
By your own folly
You will be brought as low
As you worst enemy wishes.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
By your own efforts
Waken yourself, watch yourself.
And live joyfully.
You are the master.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Awake.
Be the witness of your thoughts.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Look not for recognition
But follow the awakened
And set yourself free.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Why do what you will regret?
Why bring tears upon yourself?
Do only what you do not regret,
And fill yourself with joy.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
For a while the fool's mischief
Tastes sweet, sweet as honey.
Bit in the end it turns bitter.
And how bitterly he suffers!
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Can you hide from your own mischief.
Not in the sky,
Not in the midst of the ocean,
Nor deep in the mountains,
Nowhere.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Do not let pleasure distract you
From meditation, from the way.
Free yourself from pleasure and pain.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
The fool is his own enemy.
The mischief is his undoing.
How bitterly he suffers!
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Turn away from mischief.
Again and again, turn away.
Before sorrow befalls you.
Set your heart on doing good.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Do not look for bad company
Or live with men who do not care.
Find friends who love the truth.
Drink deeply.
Live in serenity and joy.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Beware of the anger of the body.
Master the body.
Let it serve truth.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Beware of the anger of the mouth.
Master your words.
Let them serve truth.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Beware of the anger of the mind.
Master your thoughts.
Let them serve truth.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
The greatest impurity is ignorance.
Free yourself from it.
Be pure.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Free from passion and desire,
You have stripped the thorns from the stem.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Happiness or sorrow -
Whatever befalls you, Walk on
Untouched, unattached.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Be quick to do good.
If you are slow,
The mind, delighting in mischief,
Will catch you.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Does the spoon taste the soup?
A fool may live all his life
In the company of a master
And still miss the way.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Cross over to the father shore,
Beyond life and death.
Do your thoughts trouble you?
Does passion disturb you?
Beware of this thirstiness
Lest your wishes become desires
And desire binds you.
Quieten your mind.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Your work is to discover your work
And then with all your heart
To give yourself to it.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Do not live in the world,
In distraction and false dreams.
Outside the dharma.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
How long the night to the watchman,
How long the road to the weary traveller,
How long the wandering of many lives
To the fool who misses the way.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
You are far from the end of your journey.
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
See how you love.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
It is not iron that imprisons you
Nor rope nor wood,
But the pleasure you take in gold and jewels,
In sons and wives.
Soft fetters,
Yet they hold you down.
Can you snap them?
Buddha
Dhammapada.
The rain could turn to gold
And still your thirst would not be slaked.
Desire is unquenchable
Or it ends in tears, even in heaven.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
If the traveller cannot find
Master or friend to go with him,
Let him travel alone
Rather than with a fool for company.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Few cross over the river.
Most are stranded on this side.
On the riverbank they run up and down.
But the wise man, following the way,
Crosses over, beyond the reach of death.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Follow the way of virtue.
Follow the way joyfully
Through this world and on beyond!
Buddha
Dhammapada.
The fool laughs at generosity.
The miser cannot enter heaven.
But the master finds joy in giving
And happiness is his reward.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
If you are happy
At the expense of another man's happiness,
You are forever bound.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
You are a seeker.
Delight in the mastery
Of your hands and your feet,
Of your words and your thoughts.
Delight in meditation
And in solitude.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
It is you who must make the effort.
Masters only point the way.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
If you are filled with desire
Your sorrows swell
Like the grass after the rain.
But if you subdue desire
Your sorrows shall fall from you
Like drops of water from a lotus flower.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
If you kill, lie or steal,
Commit adultery or drink,
You dig up your own roots.
And if you cannot master yourself,
The harm you do turns against you Grievously.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
If he is a good man,
A man of faith, honoured and prosperous,
Wherever he goes he is welcome.
Like the Himalayas
Good men shine from afar.
But bad men move unseen
Like arrows in the night.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Thirty-six streams are rushing toward you!
Desire and pleasure and lust...
Play in your imagination with them
And they will sweep you away.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
While a man desires a woman,
His mind is bound
As closely as a calf to its mother.
As you would pluck an autumn lily,
Pluck the arrow of desire.
For he who is awake
Has shown you the way of peace.
Give yourself to the journey.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
One man denies the truth.
Another denies his own actions.
Both go into the dark.
And in the next world suffer
For they offend truth.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
If desires are not uprooted,
Sorrows grow again in you.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
The wise man delights in the truth
And follows the law of the awakened.
The farmer channels water to his land.
The fletcher whittles his arrows.
And the carpenter turns his wood.
So the wise man directs his mind.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Master your senses,
What you taste and smell,
What you see, what you hear.
In all things be a master.
Of what you do and say and think.
Be free.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
He who goes naked,
With matted hair, mud-bespattered,
Who fasts and sleeps on the ground
And smears his body with ashes
And sits in endless meditation-
So long as he is not free from doubts,
He will not find freedom.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
He who lives purely and self-assured,
In quietness and virtue,
Who is without harm or hurt or blame,
Even if he wears fine clothes,
So long as he also has faith,
He is a true seeker.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Live joyfully,
Without desire.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
Buddha
The Teachings of Buddha, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai.
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
Buddha
The Teachings of Buddha, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha
The Teachings of Buddha, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai.
