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Bhikkhu Inspirational Quotes (1294)

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If it shouldn't happen, it wouldn't happen.
Ajahn Chah
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When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.
Gautama Buddha
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An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains they mean mountains are mountains.
Dogen
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What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering. Don't grasp and cling to them, and they do not produce suffering.
Buddhadasa
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The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.
Gautama Buddha
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Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising of the noble eightfold path.
Gautama Buddha
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
Bodhidharma
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All composite things decay. Strive diligently.
Gautama Buddha
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[You] can dramatically change [your emotions] to be more altruistic, more loving, more compassionate, more attentive, and especially to have an inner sort of confidence and strength that you know that you have the resources to deal with whatever comes your way.
Matthieu Ricard
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If the Fleeting World is but a long dream, it does not matter whether one is young or old.
Bai Juyi
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As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.
Gautama Buddha
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You are all Buddhas. There is nothing you need to achieve. Just open your eyes.
Gautama Buddha
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Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise.
Gautama Buddha
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If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life.
Wumen Huikai
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Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their own happiness as if it were an enemy
Shantideva
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When a tree has been transplanted, though fierce winds may blow, it will not topple if it has a firm stake to hold it up. But even a tree that has grown up in place may fall over if its roots are weak.
Nichiren
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Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.
Matthieu Ricard
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Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream
Gautama Buddha
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You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.
Henepola Gunaratana
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The mind is always present. You just don't see it.
Bodhidharma
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Only when you understand people, they may understand you. So even though you do not say anything, if you understand people there is some communication.
Shunryu Suzuki
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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
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From the very beginning all beings are Buddha. Like water and ice,without water no ice, outside us no Buddhas.
Hakuin Ekaku
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Comparing oneself to others in such terms as Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I, he should neither kill nor cause others to kill.
Gautama Buddha
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