Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind. Gautama Buddha More Quotes by Gautama Buddha More Quotes From Gautama Buddha A generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity. Gautama Buddha gratitudeheartinspirational Offensive acts come back upon the evil doer, like dust that is thrown against the wind. Gautama Buddha dustevilwind There are having flowers in Spring, breezes in Summer, moon in Autumn, snows in Winter. If there is nothing worrying over you, it will be the best seasons at all times. Gautama Buddha flowersummerspring Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel? Gautama Buddha rainbowlife-is-shortstars Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence... Enter into rapture and pleasure born of silence derived of concentration and awareness that is free from thought and fabrication. Gautama Buddha buddhistsilencemind A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker. Gautama Buddha buddhistdogpositive Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two. Gautama Buddha wiseinspiringpositive How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are. Gautama Buddha all-thingsperfectwonderful There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving. Gautama Buddha buddhistmoneywise Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace. Gautama Buddha buddhistcutefriendship One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you a teacher?" the student persisted. "No, I am not a teacher." "Then what are you?" asked the student exasperated. "I am awake," Buddha replied. Gautama Buddha buddhistspiritualteacher Make of yourself a light. Gautama Buddha light Rage is a powerful energy that with diligent practice can be transformed into fierce compassion. However much we disagree with our enemies, our task is to identify with them. They too feel justified in their point of view. Gautama Buddha powerfulcompassionviews We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? Gautama Buddha buddhismprocrastinationdeath He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man. Gautama Buddha strongvegetarianismmen The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man. Gautama Buddha wisemenmoving When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily. Gautama Buddha pluckflowerwater One who previously made bad karma, but who reforms and creates good karma, brightens the world like the moon appearing from behind a cloud. Gautama Buddha karmabuddhistmoon And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay. Gautama Buddha buddhistpeacefulfreedom Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment. Gautama Buddha enlightenmentluxurybuddhist
