I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me. Gautama Buddha More Quotes by Gautama Buddha More Quotes From Gautama Buddha From a withered tree, a flower blooms Gautama Buddha withered flower tree Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men. Gautama Buddha tunes heart men All composite things pass away. Strive for your own liberation with diligence. Gautama Buddha diligence strive passing-away Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear. Gautama Buddha shining wisdom wise If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it. Gautama Buddha religious would-be religion If dresses would have qualified people, then whores would have ruled the world. Gautama Buddha inspirational life people If there is a God, it is inconceivable that he would be concerned about my day to day affairs. Gautama Buddha if-there-is-a-god would-be religion 'Wherefore, brethren, thus must ye train yourselves : Liberation of the will through love will develop, we will often practice it, we will make it vehicle and base, take our stand upon it, store it up, throughly set it going.' Gautama Buddha ethics morality practice Believe there is good in the world. Gautama Buddha believe world travel Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a lamp overturned and re-lit, illuminating the darkness. Gautama Buddha courage heart inspirational Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. Gautama Buddha buddhist buddhism hatred There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros. Gautama Buddha arise grief evil Be a light unto yourself. Gautama Buddha buddhist light When you have great joy, you will become Buddhas! Gautama Buddha buddhist joy happiness 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 buddhist summer dream So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, 'This contemplative is our teacher.' When you know for yourselves that, 'These qualities are unskillful; these qualities are blameworthy; these qualities are criticized by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to harm & to suffering' - then you should abandon them. Gautama Buddha buddhist wise teacher Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow. Gautama Buddha buddhist wisdom loss Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village. Gautama Buddha buddhist color flower Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme. Gautama Buddha buddhist elephants death He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is truly called one who is bound upstream. Gautama Buddha longing buddhist mind
