256 quotes found
“Let a man leave anger, let him forsake pride, let him overcome all bondage! No sufferings befall the man who is not attached to name and form and who calls nothing his own.[Verse 221] TR- Friedrich...”
“Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention”
“All beings tremble before violence.All fear death.All love life.See yourself in others.Then whom can you hurt?What harm can you do?”
“Now, 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 though...”
“Here bhikkhus, some misguided men learn the Dhamma–discourses, stanzas, expositions, verses, exclamations, sayings, birth stories, marvels, and answers to questions–but having learned the Dhamma, t...”
“Greater than all the joysOf heaven and earth,Greater still than dominionOver all the worlds,Is the joy of reaching the stream.”
“You are as the yellow leaf.The messengers of death are at hand.You are to travel far away.What will you take with you?You are the lampTo lighten the way.Then hurry, hurry.When your light shinesWith...”
“I shall live here in the rains,There in winter,Elsewhere in summer," muses the fool,Not aware of the nearness of death.”
“Jīvaka, I say that there are three instances in which meat should not be eaten: when it is seen, heard, or suspected [that the living being has been slaughtered for oneself]. I say that meat should...”
“Whatever is impermanent is dukkha’ (Yad aniccaṃ taṃ dukkhaṃ).”
“I should try to pass along the good that has happened to me. That’s my responsibility as being part of this planet.”
“Isn’t the media supposed to keep government responsible?”
“Through zeal knowledge is gotten through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.”
“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.”
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past not to worry about the future nor to anticipate troubles but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
“He who loves 50 people has 50 woes he who loves no one has no woes.”
