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 I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate, independent of words and transmitted beyond doctrine. This I have entrusted to Mahakashyapa. Gautama Buddha buddhist independent eye The world is continuous flux and is impermanent. Gautama Buddha words-of-wisdom atheism world When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom. Gautama Buddha serenity contentment desire (They) were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia. Gautama Buddha buddhist east india Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not carried out by the speaker. Gautama Buddha buddhist wise beautiful One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment. Gautama Buddha year-one moments years Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Gautama Buddha wisdom religious teacher To know and not to use is not yet to know! Gautama Buddha entrepreneur use knows Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular. Gautama Buddha soothing language thousand Thousands upon thousands of lights is inferior to a light of heart. Gautama Buddha honesty determination heart Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling of raindrops a jar of water is filled, so the wise person becomes full of good, even though he or she collects it little by little. Gautama Buddha wise heart fall Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire. Gautama Buddha buddhist fire doe If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart, great indeed is this Way. Gautama Buddha simplicity meditation heart One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy. Gautama Buddha birth deeds doe In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water to nourish the see we have planted; in the end, compassion is like the warmth of the sun that brings the fruit to ripening. Gautama Buddha fruit compassion water Sandalwood, tagara, lotus, jasmine - the fragrance of virtue is unrivalled by such kinds of perfume. Gautama Buddha jasmine lotuses buddhist Conquer a liar with truth. Gautama Buddha conquer meditation liars Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness. Gautama Buddha gone home hair May all sentient beings be happy and free of suffering. Gautama Buddha insightful suffering may The hunger of passions is the greatest disease. Gautama Buddha buddhist passion disease