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Gautama Buddha Inspirational Quotes (661)

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All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?
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This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world: Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream. So is all conditioned existence to be seen.
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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.
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It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.
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If people become accustomed to lying, they will unconsciously commit every possible wrong deed. Before they can act wickedly, they must lie and once they begin to lie they will act wickedly without concern.
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A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.
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When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
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He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.
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For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.
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When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you look upon the lost like one that stands on a mountain sees those that stand upon the plain.
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Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.
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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
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Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.
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In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west people create disticntions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
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The gift of truth excels all other gifts.
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Life is easy For the man who is without shame, Impudent as a crow, A vicious gossip, Vain, meddlesome, dissolute. But life is hard For the man who quietly undertakes The way of perfection, With purity, detachment and vigor. He sees light.
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Those which arise dependently are free of inherent existence.
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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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The more completely we give of ourselves, the more completely the world gives back to us.
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First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. ...Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego.
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Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp.
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Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views
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Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.
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The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.
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