Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil. Gautama Buddha More Quotes by Gautama Buddha More Quotes From Gautama Buddha I will purify my bodily actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my verbal actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my mental actions through repeated reflection. That's how you should train yourself. Gautama Buddha buddhistreflectionaction In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock them down, cease to play with them, apply yourself to the destruction of craving for them. Verily, ... the extinction of craving is Nirvana. Gautama Buddha perceptionplayfeelings I have passed in ignorance through a cycle of many rebirths, seeking the builder of the house. Continuous rebirth is a painful thing. But now, housebuilder, I have found you out. You will not build me a house again. All your rafters are broken, your ridge-pole shattered. My mind is free from active thought, and has made an end of craving. Gautama Buddha buddhistpainignorance To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river. Gautama Buddha practicespiritualpast For, owners of their deeds (karma) are the beings, heirs of their deeds; their deeds are the womb from which they sprang; with their deeds they are bound up; their deeds are their refuge. Whatever deeds they do-good or evil-of such they will be the heirs. And wherever the beings spring into existence, there their deeds will ripen; and wherever their deeds ripen, there they will earn the fruits of those deeds, be it in this life, or be it in the next life, or be it in any other future life. Gautama Buddha karmaevilspring Embrace nothing: Gautama Buddha live-your-lifeembracefather Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world. Gautama Buddha judgingspiritualworld Dharma is not upheld by talking about it. Dharma is upheld by living in harmony with it. Gautama Buddha harmonybuddhisttalking Observe the life by cause and consequence. Explore the life by wisdom. Treat the life by equality. Complete the life by love. Gautama Buddha balancedeterminationfaith 'I've got children', 'I've got wealth.' This is the way a fool brings suffering on himself. He does not even own himself, so how can he have children or wealth? Gautama Buddha buddhistsufferingchildren Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true liberation. Gautama Buddha sufferingmindheart A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering. Gautama Buddha buddhistlongthinking I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise. Gautama Buddha buddhistinspirationwise This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain. Gautama Buddha autumnbuddhistclouds Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good. Gautama Buddha buddhistpleasureshould Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everythiong else. Gautama Buddha siddharthaenlightenmentbuddhist 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 assistanceheightresponsibility Crying with the wise is better than laughing with the fool. Gautama Buddha foolwiselaughing It is your mind that creates the world. Gautama Buddha mindworld Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up and down, the symbol of this continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering, and dying. (It) is constantly changing from moment to moment, (as lives) follow continuously one upon the other through inconceivable periods of time. Of this Samsara, a single lifetime constitutes only a vanishingly tiny fraction. Gautama Buddha single-lifenamessea
