Quote

These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states of mind generated by these teachings, How much more so should you abandon bad states of mind!

Gautama Buddha

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gautama Buddha
Bhikkhu
Founding Figure
Philosopher
Religion Founder
Religious Leader
Writer
Siddhārtha Gautama
Shakyamuni
Buddha
Lord Buddha
Buddhadeva
Devarajalu
Gautam
Gotam
Khajit
Lokpradeep
Munish
Padmayani
Prabudha
Sakyasinha
Saugata
Shaakya
Shakyasinha
Siddarth
Tathagat
Tatharaj
Trigya
Trigyesh
Trikay
Fo
Sakya-muni
Mahatma
Teaching
Generated
Since
Crossed
States
Teachings
Even
Flood
Much
Abandoned
Mind
Abandon
Good
Buddhist
Like
Buddhism
Raft

More quotes by Gautama Buddha

Image
Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth.
Gautama Buddha
Image
Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred it will be stifled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal.
Gautama Buddha
Image
When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.
Gautama Buddha
Image
All phenomena link together in a mutually conditioning network.
Gautama Buddha
Image
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.
Gautama Buddha
Image
Those who, relying upon themselves only, not looking for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who will reach the top-most height.
Gautama Buddha
Image
Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.
Gautama Buddha
Image
There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future.
Gautama Buddha
Image
Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again
Gautama Buddha
Image
The heavens and the earth may be captured by the mind's eye.
Gautama Buddha
Image
Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.
Gautama Buddha
Image
Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention
Gautama Buddha
Image
Love lasts when the relationship comes first
Gautama Buddha
Image
For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.
Gautama Buddha
Image
Observe the life by cause and consequence. Explore the life by wisdom. Treat the life by equality. Complete the life by love.
Gautama Buddha
Image
The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions
Gautama Buddha
Image
Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind
Gautama Buddha
Image
Insignificant, is the loss of relatives, wealth and fame The loss of wisdom is the greatest loss. Insignificant, is the increase of relatives, wealth and fame The increase of wisdom is the highest gain. Therefore, you should train yourselves thus: We will grow in the increase of wisdom Thus you should train yourselves.
Gautama Buddha
Image
If we destroy something around us we destroy ourselves. If we cheat another, we cheat ourselves.
Gautama Buddha
Image
Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.
Gautama Buddha