About Gautama Buddha: Gautama Buddha is believed to have lived and taught mostly in northeastern India sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries BCE.
Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.
Purity or impurity depends on oneself, No one can purify another.
Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.
Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate. Live in joy, in health, even among the afflicted. Live in joy, in peace, even among the troubled. Look within, be still. Free from fear and attachment, know the sweet joy of the way.
Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of lovingkindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.
How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.
Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.
Bhikkus, all is burning. And what is the all that is burning? The eye is burning, visible forms are burning, eye-consciousness is burning, eye-contact is burning; also whatever is felt as pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant that arise...
Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.
Through countless births in the cycle of existence I have run, not finding although seeking the builder of this house; and again and again I faced the suffering of new birth. Oh housebuilder! Now you are seen. You shall not build a house again for me...
Bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya: For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.
All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependent-arisings. All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependently imputed.
Monks, even if bandits were to savagely sever you, limb by limb, with a double-handled saw, even then, whoever of you harbors ill will at heart would not be upholding my Teaching. Monks, even in such a situation you should train yourselves thus: 'Nei...
Yes, Kālāmas, it is proper that your have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in a matter which is doubtful. Now, look you Kālāmas, do not be led by reports, or traditions, or hearsay. Be not led by the authority of religious ...
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
True love is born from understanding.
You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.
All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.
Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me.
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.
