When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself. Gautama Buddha More Quotes by Gautama Buddha More Quotes From Gautama Buddha For soon the body is discarded, Then what does it feel? A useless log of wood, it lies on the ground, Then what does it know? Your worst enemy cannot harm you As much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, No one can help you as much, Not even your father or your mother. Gautama Buddha mother father lying Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease. Gautama Buddha buddhist sensual giving I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me. Gautama Buddha atheism fighting world For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say, an island exists where there is no place for impediments, no place for clinging: the island of no going beyond. I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying. Gautama Buddha struggle spiritual islands Nothing is to be clung to as I, me or mine Gautama Buddha mines inspiration I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake on Earth as a drop of oil on my foot. Gautama Buddha dust kings lakes Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you. Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, And you will be filled with joy. A fool is happy Until his mischief turns against him. And a good man may suffer Until his goodness flowers. Do not make light of your failings, Saying, 'What are they to me?' A jug fills drop by drop. Gautama Buddha flower heart men I call wise man who, while he is innocent , endures insults and blows with a patience equal to its strength. Gautama Buddha wise blow men Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. Gautama Buddha karma wise inspiring Dwell not on the faults and shortcomings of others; instead, seek clarity about your own. Gautama Buddha shortcomings clarity faults Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless, be blameless. Awake to the law. And from all sorrows free yourself. Gautama Buddha sorrow law believe The four catagories of existance, non-existance, both existance and non-existance, and neither existance nor non-existance, are spiderwebs among spiderwebs which can never take hold of the enormous bird of reality Gautama Buddha buddhist bird reality Right perspective is no perspective or all perspectives. Gautama Buddha perspective If you do not follow the right path, you will be lost. Gautama Buddha right-path path lost If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox. Gautama Buddha buddhist feet mind If a string has one end, it has another. Gautama Buddha strings ends ifs Dispassion is the best of mental states. . . . Gautama Buddha buddhist best-of-me states The non-doing of any evil, Gautama Buddha teaching evil mind Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people will not see me. Gautama Buddha effort voice people There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned. If, monks, there were no unborn... no escape would be discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned. But because there is an unborn..., therefore an escape is discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned. Gautama Buddha born monk would-be
