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Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
Buddha
The Teachings of Buddha, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai.
Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else.
Buddha
The Teachings of Buddha, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai.
The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.
Buddha
The Teachings of Buddha, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai.
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
Buddha
The Teachings of Buddha, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai.
Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just like these, as the self-nature of things can not exist alone, they are called non-substantial.
Buddha
The Teachings of Buddha, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai.
Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.
Buddha
Wisdom of the Buddha: The Unabridged Dhammapada.
Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.
Buddha
Wisdom of the Buddha: The Unabridged Dhammapada.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Do not rely upon what has been acquired by repeated tradition; nor upon lineage; nor upon rumour; nor upon what is handed down in the teachings; nor upon logic; nor upon inference; nor upon a consideration of reasons; nor upon a delight in speculation; nor upon appearances; nor upon respect for your teacher. Kalmas, when you know for yourselves: These things are unskilful; these things are blameable; these things are censured by the wise; undertaken and observed, these things lead to harm and suffering, then abandon them.
Buddha
Kalama Sutta.
His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.
Buddha
The Gospel of Buddha by Paul Carus.
Nothing is permanent or sanatan. Everything is subject to change. Being is always Becoming.
Buddha
Buddha or Karl Marx by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
Nothing is infallible. Nothing is binding forever. Every thing is subject to inquiry and examination.
Buddha
Buddha or Karl Marx by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
This is to be done by one skilled in aims
who wants to break through to the state of peace:
Be capable, upright, & straightforward,
easy to instruct, gentle, & not conceited,
content & easy to support,
with few duties, living lightly,
with peaceful faculties, masterful,
modest, & no greed for supporters.
Do not do the slightest thing
that the wise would later censure.
Buddha
Karaniya Metta Sutta.
Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.
Buddha
Majjhima-Nikaya.
This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.
Buddha
Buddhism and Indian Civilization by R. K. Pruthi.
He who for the sake of happiness hurts others who also want happiness, shall not hereafter find happiness.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
He who destroys life, who utters lies, who takes what is not given to him, who goes to the wife of another, who gets drunk with strong drinks -- he digs up the very roots of his life.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
The wise who hurt no living being, and who keep their body under self-control, they go to the immortal Nirvana, where once gone they sorrow no more.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
A man is not a great man because he is a warrior and kills other men; but because he hurts not any living being he in truth is called a great man.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
All beings fear before danger, life is dear to all. When a man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Like a fish which is thrown on dry land, taken from his home in the waters, the mind strives and struggles to get free from the power of Death.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Overcome anger by peacefulness: overcome evil by good. Overcome the mean by generosity; and the man who lies by truth.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character.
So watch the thought and its ways with care,
And let it spring from love
Born out of concern for all beings.
As t he shadow follows the body,
As we think, so we become.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Let a man overcome anger by love.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
We are shaped by our thoughts;
We become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
Like a shadow that never leaves.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
What we think, we become.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
No one saves us but ourselves,
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path,
But Buddhas clearly show the way.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Can there be joy and laughter
When always the world is ablaze?
Enshrouded in darkness
Should you not seek a light?
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Yet the Teaching is simple.
Do what is right.
Be pure.
At the end of the way is freedom.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Do not what is evil. Do what is good. Keep your mind pure. This is the teaching.
Buddha
Dhammapada
To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
He who lives only for pleasures, and whose soul is not in harmony, who considers not the food he eats, is idle, and has not the power of virtue -- such a man is moved by mara (evil one), is moved by selfish temptations, even as a weak tree is shaken by the wind.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
If he makes himself as good as he tells others to be, then he in truth can teach others. Difficult indeed is self-control.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
But truly, Ananda, it is nothing strange that human beings should die.
Buddha
Digha Nikaya.
Whatever is felt is within suffering.
Buddha
Samyutta Nikaya.
This is deathless: the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging.
Buddha
Majjhima Nikaya.
Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.
Buddha
Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta.
All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!
Buddha
Mahaparinibbana Sutta.
The parts and powers of man must be dissolved; work out your own salvation with diligence.
Buddha
Mahaparinibbana Sutta.
Sensual passions are your first army.
Your second is called Discontent.
Your third is Hunger & Thirst.
Your fourth is called Craving.
Fifth is Sloth & Drowsiness.
Sixth is called Terror.
Your seventh is Uncertainty.
Hypocrisy & Stubbornness, your eighth.
Gains, Offerings, Fame, & Status wrongly gained,
and whoever would praise self
& disparage others.
That, Namuci, is your enemy,
the Dark One's commando force.
A coward can't defeat it,
but one having defeated it
gains bliss.
Buddha
Padhana Sutta.
I spit on my life.
Death in battle would be better for me
than that I, defeated, survive.
Buddha
Padhana Sutta, on his battle against personification of temptation to evil.
That army of yours,
that the world with its devas can't overcome,
I will smash with discernment.
Buddha
Padhana Sutta.
Nothing tends toward loss as does an untamed heart.
The untamed heart tends towards loss.
Nothing tends toward growth as does a tamed heart.
The tamed heart tends towards growth.
Nothing brings suffering as does
the untamed, uncontrolled unattended and unrestrained heart.
That heart brings suffering.
Nothing brings joy as does a
tamed, controlled, attended and restrained heart.
This heart brings joy.
Buddha
Anguttara Nikaya.
In a world that has become blind I go to beat the drum of the Deathless.
Buddha
Ariyapariyesana Sutta.
Open are the doors to the Deathless
to those with ears.
Let them show their conviction.
Buddha
Ayacana Sutta.
This itself is the whole of the journey, opening your heart to that which is lovely. Because of their feeling for the lovely, beings who are afraid of birth and death, aging and decaying, are freed from their fear. This is the way you must train yourself: I will become your friend and an intimate of the lovely. To do this I must closely observe and embrace all states of mind that are good.
Buddha
Samyutta Nikaya, The Buddha Speaks by Anne Bancroft.
If a person teaches the way in order to transcend the tyranny of material things and to teach how to transcend feelings, perceptions, impulses, and consciousness--teaching nonattachment with regard to these--then that person can be called a speaker of the way. If he is himself trying to transcend the pull of the material world and to feel nonattachment toward it, then it is fitting to say he is living in accordance with the way. If he is liberated by this transcendence and nonattachment, then you can say he has found nirvana here and now.
Buddha
Samyutta Nikaya, The Buddha Speaks by Anne Bancroft.
A corporeal phenomenon, a feeling, a perception, a mental formation, a consciousness, which is permanent and persistent, eternal and not subject to change, such a thing the wise men in this world do not recognize; and I also say that there is no such thing.
Buddha
Samyutta Nikaya - Buddha, The Word by Paul Carus.
Be it in the past, present, or future, whosoever of the monks or priests regards the delightful and pleasurable things in the world as impermanent, miserable, and without a self, as diseases and cankers, it is he who overcomes craving.
Buddha
Samyutta Nikaya - The Word of the Buddha by Nyanatiloka (Bhikkhu).
Corporeality is transient, feeling is transient, perception is transient, mental formations are transient, consciousness is transient.
Buddha
Samyutta Nikaya - Buddha, The Word by Paul Carus.
Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.
Buddha
Dhammapada
If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?
Buddha
Sutta Nipata.
One should do what one teaches others to do; if one would train others, one should be well controlled oneself. Difficult, indeed, is self-control.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
One truly is the protector of oneself; who else could the protector be? With oneself fully controlled, one gains a mastery that is hard to gain.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart: Above, below, and all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate.
Buddha
Metta Sutta.
Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
There are those who do not realize that one day we all must die. But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
The friend who is a helpmate,
the friend in happiness and woe,
the friend who gives good counsel, the friend who sympathizes too -
these four as friends the wise behold
and cherish them devotedly
as does a mother her own child.
Buddha
Sigalovada Sutta, Digha Nikaya.
Crushing out of the conceit "I am" -
this is the highest happiness.
Buddha
Udana.
Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Wonderful it is to train the mind so swiftly moving, seizing whatever it wants. Good is it to have a well-trained mind, for a well-trained mind brings happiness.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Winning gives birth to hostility. Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing aside.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Let no one deceive another
or despise anyone anywhere,
or through anger or irritation
wish for another to suffer.
Buddha
Karaniya Metta Sutta.
Though one may conquer a thousand times a thousand men in battle, yet he indeed is the noblest victor who conquers himself.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
"As I am, so are others; as others are, so am I." Having thus identified self and others, harm no one nor have them harmed.
Buddha
Sutta Nipata.
Were there a mountain all made of gold,
doubled that would not be enough
to satisfy a single man:
know this and live accordingly.
Buddha
Samyutta Nikaya.
Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Knowing that the other person is angry, one who remains mindful and calm acts for his own best interest and for the other's interest, too.
Buddha
Samyutta Nikaya.
By doing evil, one defiles oneself; by avoiding evil, one purifies oneself. Purity and impurity depend upon oneself: no one can purify another.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.
Buddha
Sutta Nipata.
Even when obstacles crowd in, the path to Nibbana can be won by those who establish mindfulness and bring to perfection equipoise.
Buddha
Samyutta Nikaya.
Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.
Buddha
Udana.
Think not lightly of evil, saying, "It will not come to me." Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the fool, gathering it little by little, fills himself with e
Buddha
Dhammapada.
I have love for the footless, for the bipeds too I have love; I have love for those with four feet, for the many-footed I have love.
Buddha
Anguttara Nikaya.
Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live as hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.
Buddha
Sutta Nipata.
Life is swept along, next-to-nothing its span. For one swept to old age no shelters exist. Perceiving this danger in death, one should drop the world's bait and look for peace.
Buddha
Samyutta Nikaya.
The past should not be followed after and the future not desired; what is past is dead and gone and the future is yet to come.
Buddha
Majjhima Nikaya.
Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.
Buddha
Digha Nikaya.
"Impermanent are all compounded things." When one perceives this with true insight, then one becomes detached from suffering; this is the path of purification,
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Wisdom springs from meditation; without meditation wisdom wanes. Having known these two paths of progress and decline, let a man so conduct himself that his wisdom may increase.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Just as in the autumn a farmer, ploughing with a large plough cuts through all the spreading rootlets as he ploughs; in the same way, bhikkhus, the perceiving of impermanence, developed and frequently practiced, removes all sensual passion…removes and abolishes all conceit of ‘I am’.
Buddha
Samyutta Nikaya.
The conquest of oneself is better than the conquest of all others.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
By self alone is evil done, by self alone does one suffer.
By self alone is evil left undone, by self alone does one obtain Salvation.
Salvation and Perdition depend upon self; no man can save another.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
It is nature's law that rivers wind, trees grow wood, and, given the opportunity, women work iniquity.
Buddha
The Jataka.
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha
