Gautama Buddha quotes on happiness
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves
Gautama Buddha quotes on anger
You will not be punished for your anger you will be punished by your anger
Gautama Buddha quotes on suffering
He who loves fifty people has fifty woes; he who loves no one has no woes
Gautama Buddha quotes about love
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule
The ignorant man is an ox.
He grows in size, not in wisdom.
For in craving pleasure or in nursing pain
There is only sorrow.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Speak or act with a pure mind
And happiness will follow you
As your shadow, unshakable.
Free yourself from attachment.
Fresh milk takes time to sour.
So a fool's mischief
Takes time to catch up with him.
Like the embers of a fire
It smoulders within him.
The wise man tells you
Where you have fallen
And where you yet may fall - Invaluable secrets!
Follow him, follow the way.
By your own folly
You will be brought as low
As you worst enemy wishes.
Health, contentment and trust
Are your greatest possessions,
And freedom your greatest joy.
Look within.
Be still.
By your own efforts
Waken yourself, watch yourself.
And live joyfully.
You are the master.
Speak or act with an impure mind,
And trouble will follow you.
An untroubled mind,
No longer seeking to consider
What is right and what is wrong,
A mind beyond judgements,
Watches and understands.
In this world Hate
never yet dispelled hate.
Only love dispels hate.
This is the law,
Ancient and inexhaustible.
In every trial
Let understanding fight for you
If a man's thoughts are muddy,
If he is reckless and full of deceit,
How can he wear the yellow robe?
Whoever is master of his own nature,
Bright, clear and true,
He may indeed wear the yellow robe.
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.
Whoever follows impure thoughts
Suffers in this world and the next.
In both worlds he suffers
And how greatly
Understand that the body
Is merely the foam of a wave,
The shadow of a shadow.
Desire never crosses the path
Of virtuous and wakeful men.
The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay
Does not travel far.
But the fragrance of virtue
Rises to the heavens.
Look not for recognition
But follow the awakened
And set yourself free.
How easily the wind overturns a frail tree.
Seek happiness in the senses, Indulge in food and sleep,
And you too will be uprooted.
The wind cannot overturn a mountain.
Temptation cannot touch the man
Who is awake, strong and humble,
Who masters himself and minds the dharma.
Why do what you will regret?
Why bring tears upon yourself?
Do only what you do not regret,
And fill yourself with joy.
For a while the fool's mischief
Tastes sweet, sweet as honey.
Bit in the end it turns bitter.
And how bitterly he suffers!
Can you hide from your own mischief.
Not in the sky,
Not in the midst of the ocean,
Nor deep in the mountains,
Nowhere
Free from fear and attachment,
Know the sweet joy of the way.
How joyful to look upon the awakened
And to keep company with the wise.
How long the road to the man
Who travels the road with the fool.
Do not let pleasure distract you
From meditation, from the way.
Free yourself from pleasure and pain.
The fool is his own enemy.
The mischief is his undoing.
How bitterly he suffers!
Turn away from mischief.
Again and again, turn away.
Before sorrow befalls you.
Set your heart on doing good.
Do not look for bad company
Or live with men who do not care.
Find friends who love the truth.
Drink deeply.
Live in serenity and joy.
Never speak harsh words
For they will rebound upon you.
Angry words hurt
And the hurt rebounds.
Like a broken gong.
Free from passion and desire,
You have stripped the thorns from the stem.
The man who awakes and follows the way.
They are free from fear.
They are free.
They have crossed over the river of sorrow.
Let go of anger.
Let go of pride.
When you are bound by nothing
You go beyond sorrow.
The wise have mastered
Body, word and mind.
Does the spoon taste the soup?
A fool may live all his life
In the company of a master
And still miss the way.
Be quick to do good.
If you are slow,
The mind, delighting in mischief,
Will catch you.
Happiness or sorrow -
Whatever befalls you, Walk on
Untouched, unattached.
Cross over to the father shore,
Beyond life and death.
Do your thoughts trouble you?
Does passion disturb you?
Beware of this thirstiness
Lest your wishes become desires
And desire binds you.
Quieten your mind.
Your work is to discover your work
And then with all your heart
To give yourself to it..
Do not live in the world,
In distraction and false dreams.
Outside the dharma.
With gentleness overcome anger.
With generosity overcome meanness.
With truth overcome deceit.
Beware of the anger of the body.
Master the body.
Let it serve truth.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.
How long the night to the watchman,
How long the road to the weary traveller,
How long the wandering of many lives
To the fool who misses the way.
Better than a thousand hollow words
Is one word that brings peace.
Better than a thousand hollow verses
Is one verse that brings peace.
Better than a hundred hollow lines
Is one line of the dharma, bringing peace.
As the moon slips from behind a cloud
And shines,
So the master comes out from behind his ignorance
And shines.
There is no fire like passion,
No crime like hatred,
No sorrow like separation,
No sickness like hunger,
And no joy like the joy of freedom.
Beware of the anger of the mouth.
Master your words.
Let them serve truth.
Beware of the anger of the mind.
Master your thoughts.
Let them serve truth.
The greatest impurity is ignorance.
Free yourself from it.
Be pure.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.
The rain could turn to gold
And still your thirst would not be slaked.
Desire is unquenchable
Or it ends in tears, even in heaven.
If the traveller cannot find
Master or friend to go with him,
Let him travel alone
Rather than with a fool for company.
Few cross over the river.
Most are stranded on this side.
On the riverbank they run up and down.
But the wise man, following the way,
Crosses over, beyond the reach of death.
It is better to conquer yourself
Than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
Not by angels or by demons,
Heaven or hell.
Follow the way of virtue.
Follow the way joyfully
Through this world and on beyond!
The fool laughs at generosity.
The miser cannot enter heaven.
But the master finds joy in giving
And happiness is his reward.
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 far from the end of your journey.
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
See how you love
If you are happy
At the expense of another man's happiness,
You are forever bound.
You are a seeker.
Delight in the mastery
Of your hands and your feet,
Of your words and your thoughts.
Delight in meditation
And in solitude.
Master your words.
Master your thoughts.
Never allow your body to do harm.
Follow these three roads with purity
And you will find yourself upon the one way,
The way of wisdom.
Do what you have to do
Resolutely, with all your heart.
The traveller who hesitates
Only raises dust on the road.
To share happiness.
And to have done something good
Before leaving this life is sweet
If you are filled with desire
Your sorrows swell
Like the grass after the rain.
But if you subdue desire
Your sorrows shall fall from you
Like drops of water from a lotus flower.
It is not iron that imprisons you
Nor rope nor wood,
But the pleasure you take in gold and jewels,
In sons and wives.
Soft fetters,
Yet they hold you down.
Can you snap them?
Be the witness of your thoughts.
Gray hairs do not make a master.
A man may grow old in vain.
The masters only point the way.
But if you meditate
And follow the dharma
You will free yourself from desire.
You are reckless, and desire grows.
But the master is wakeful.
He watches his body.
In all his actions he discriminates,
And he becomes pure.
He is without blame
It is better to do nothing
Than to do what is wrong.
For whatever you do, you do to yourself.
If you sleep,
Desire grows in you
Like a vine in the forest.
Like a monkey in the forest
You jump from tree to tree,
Never finding the fruit -
From life to life,
Never finding peace.
Weeds choke the field.
Passion poisons the nature of man
Give thanks
For what had been given to you,
However little.
Be pure, never falter.
You have no name and no form.
Why miss what you do not have?
The seeker is not sorry.
If you kill, lie or steal,
Commit adultery or drink,
You dig up your own roots.
And if you cannot master yourself,
The harm you do turns against you Grievously.
The true master lives in truth,
In goodness and restraint,
Non-violence, moderation and purity.
You are the source
Of all purity and impurity.
Seeker!
Do not be restless.
Meditate constantly.
If he is a good man,
A man of faith, honoured and prosperous,
Wherever he goes he is welcome.
Like the Himalayas
Good men shine from afar.
But bad men move unseen
Like arrows in the night.
If the traveller can find
A virtuous and wise companion
Let him go with him joyfully
And overcome the dangers of the way.
But if you cannot find
Friend or master to go with you,
Travel on alone -
Like a king who has given away his kingdom,
Like an elephant in the forest.
Travel on alone
Thirty-six streams are rushing toward you!
Desire and pleasure and lust...
Play in your imagination with them
And they will sweep you away.
How easy it is to see your brother's faults,
How hard it is to face your own.
While a man desires a woman,
His mind is bound
As closely as a calf to its mother.
As you would pluck an autumn lily,
Pluck the arrow of desire.
For he who is awake
Has shown you the way of peace.
Give yourself to the journey.
There is pleasure
And there is bliss.
Forgo the first to possess the second.
Live joyfully,
Without desire.
One man denies the truth.
Another denies his own actions.
Both go into the dark.
And in the next world suffer
For they offend truth.
If desires are not uprooted,
Sorrows grow again in you.
The wise man delights in the truth
And follows the law of the awakened.
The farmer channels water to his land.
The fletcher whittles his arrows.
And the carpenter turns his wood.
So the wise man directs his mind.
Master your senses,
What you taste and smell,
What you see, what you hear.
In all things be a master.
Of what you do and say and think.
Be free.
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves
Gautama Buddha quotes on anger
You will not be punished for your anger you will be punished by your anger
Gautama Buddha quotes on suffering
He who loves fifty people has fifty woes; he who loves no one has no woes
Gautama Buddha quotes about love
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule
The ignorant man is an ox.
He grows in size, not in wisdom.
For in craving pleasure or in nursing pain
There is only sorrow.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Speak or act with a pure mind
And happiness will follow you
As your shadow, unshakable.
Free yourself from attachment.
Fresh milk takes time to sour.
So a fool's mischief
Takes time to catch up with him.
Like the embers of a fire
It smoulders within him.
The wise man tells you
Where you have fallen
And where you yet may fall - Invaluable secrets!
Follow him, follow the way.
By your own folly
You will be brought as low
As you worst enemy wishes.
Health, contentment and trust
Are your greatest possessions,
And freedom your greatest joy.
Look within.
Be still.
By your own efforts
Waken yourself, watch yourself.
And live joyfully.
You are the master.
Speak or act with an impure mind,
And trouble will follow you.
An untroubled mind,
No longer seeking to consider
What is right and what is wrong,
A mind beyond judgements,
Watches and understands.
In this world Hate
never yet dispelled hate.
Only love dispels hate.
This is the law,
Ancient and inexhaustible.
In every trial
Let understanding fight for you
If a man's thoughts are muddy,
If he is reckless and full of deceit,
How can he wear the yellow robe?
Whoever is master of his own nature,
Bright, clear and true,
He may indeed wear the yellow robe.
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.
Whoever follows impure thoughts
Suffers in this world and the next.
In both worlds he suffers
And how greatly
Understand that the body
Is merely the foam of a wave,
The shadow of a shadow.
Desire never crosses the path
Of virtuous and wakeful men.
The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay
Does not travel far.
But the fragrance of virtue
Rises to the heavens.
Look not for recognition
But follow the awakened
And set yourself free.
How easily the wind overturns a frail tree.
Seek happiness in the senses, Indulge in food and sleep,
And you too will be uprooted.
The wind cannot overturn a mountain.
Temptation cannot touch the man
Who is awake, strong and humble,
Who masters himself and minds the dharma.
Why do what you will regret?
Why bring tears upon yourself?
Do only what you do not regret,
And fill yourself with joy.
For a while the fool's mischief
Tastes sweet, sweet as honey.
Bit in the end it turns bitter.
And how bitterly he suffers!
Can you hide from your own mischief.
Not in the sky,
Not in the midst of the ocean,
Nor deep in the mountains,
Nowhere
Free from fear and attachment,
Know the sweet joy of the way.
How joyful to look upon the awakened
And to keep company with the wise.
How long the road to the man
Who travels the road with the fool.
Do not let pleasure distract you
From meditation, from the way.
Free yourself from pleasure and pain.
The fool is his own enemy.
The mischief is his undoing.
How bitterly he suffers!
Turn away from mischief.
Again and again, turn away.
Before sorrow befalls you.
Set your heart on doing good.
Do not look for bad company
Or live with men who do not care.
Find friends who love the truth.
Drink deeply.
Live in serenity and joy.
Never speak harsh words
For they will rebound upon you.
Angry words hurt
And the hurt rebounds.
Like a broken gong.
Free from passion and desire,
You have stripped the thorns from the stem.
The man who awakes and follows the way.
They are free from fear.
They are free.
They have crossed over the river of sorrow.
Let go of anger.
Let go of pride.
When you are bound by nothing
You go beyond sorrow.
The wise have mastered
Body, word and mind.
Does the spoon taste the soup?
A fool may live all his life
In the company of a master
And still miss the way.
Be quick to do good.
If you are slow,
The mind, delighting in mischief,
Will catch you.
Happiness or sorrow -
Whatever befalls you, Walk on
Untouched, unattached.
Cross over to the father shore,
Beyond life and death.
Do your thoughts trouble you?
Does passion disturb you?
Beware of this thirstiness
Lest your wishes become desires
And desire binds you.
Quieten your mind.
Your work is to discover your work
And then with all your heart
To give yourself to it..
Do not live in the world,
In distraction and false dreams.
Outside the dharma.
With gentleness overcome anger.
With generosity overcome meanness.
With truth overcome deceit.
Beware of the anger of the body.
Master the body.
Let it serve truth.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.
How long the night to the watchman,
How long the road to the weary traveller,
How long the wandering of many lives
To the fool who misses the way.
Better than a thousand hollow words
Is one word that brings peace.
Better than a thousand hollow verses
Is one verse that brings peace.
Better than a hundred hollow lines
Is one line of the dharma, bringing peace.
As the moon slips from behind a cloud
And shines,
So the master comes out from behind his ignorance
And shines.
There is no fire like passion,
No crime like hatred,
No sorrow like separation,
No sickness like hunger,
And no joy like the joy of freedom.
Beware of the anger of the mouth.
Master your words.
Let them serve truth.
Beware of the anger of the mind.
Master your thoughts.
Let them serve truth.
The greatest impurity is ignorance.
Free yourself from it.
Be pure.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.
The rain could turn to gold
And still your thirst would not be slaked.
Desire is unquenchable
Or it ends in tears, even in heaven.
If the traveller cannot find
Master or friend to go with him,
Let him travel alone
Rather than with a fool for company.
Few cross over the river.
Most are stranded on this side.
On the riverbank they run up and down.
But the wise man, following the way,
Crosses over, beyond the reach of death.
It is better to conquer yourself
Than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
Not by angels or by demons,
Heaven or hell.
Follow the way of virtue.
Follow the way joyfully
Through this world and on beyond!
The fool laughs at generosity.
The miser cannot enter heaven.
But the master finds joy in giving
And happiness is his reward.
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 far from the end of your journey.
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
See how you love
If you are happy
At the expense of another man's happiness,
You are forever bound.
You are a seeker.
Delight in the mastery
Of your hands and your feet,
Of your words and your thoughts.
Delight in meditation
And in solitude.
Master your words.
Master your thoughts.
Never allow your body to do harm.
Follow these three roads with purity
And you will find yourself upon the one way,
The way of wisdom.
Do what you have to do
Resolutely, with all your heart.
The traveller who hesitates
Only raises dust on the road.
To share happiness.
And to have done something good
Before leaving this life is sweet
If you are filled with desire
Your sorrows swell
Like the grass after the rain.
But if you subdue desire
Your sorrows shall fall from you
Like drops of water from a lotus flower.
It is not iron that imprisons you
Nor rope nor wood,
But the pleasure you take in gold and jewels,
In sons and wives.
Soft fetters,
Yet they hold you down.
Can you snap them?
Be the witness of your thoughts.
Gray hairs do not make a master.
A man may grow old in vain.
The masters only point the way.
But if you meditate
And follow the dharma
You will free yourself from desire.
You are reckless, and desire grows.
But the master is wakeful.
He watches his body.
In all his actions he discriminates,
And he becomes pure.
He is without blame
It is better to do nothing
Than to do what is wrong.
For whatever you do, you do to yourself.
If you sleep,
Desire grows in you
Like a vine in the forest.
Like a monkey in the forest
You jump from tree to tree,
Never finding the fruit -
From life to life,
Never finding peace.
Weeds choke the field.
Passion poisons the nature of man
Give thanks
For what had been given to you,
However little.
Be pure, never falter.
You have no name and no form.
Why miss what you do not have?
The seeker is not sorry.
If you kill, lie or steal,
Commit adultery or drink,
You dig up your own roots.
And if you cannot master yourself,
The harm you do turns against you Grievously.
The true master lives in truth,
In goodness and restraint,
Non-violence, moderation and purity.
You are the source
Of all purity and impurity.
Seeker!
Do not be restless.
Meditate constantly.
If he is a good man,
A man of faith, honoured and prosperous,
Wherever he goes he is welcome.
Like the Himalayas
Good men shine from afar.
But bad men move unseen
Like arrows in the night.
If the traveller can find
A virtuous and wise companion
Let him go with him joyfully
And overcome the dangers of the way.
But if you cannot find
Friend or master to go with you,
Travel on alone -
Like a king who has given away his kingdom,
Like an elephant in the forest.
Travel on alone
Thirty-six streams are rushing toward you!
Desire and pleasure and lust...
Play in your imagination with them
And they will sweep you away.
How easy it is to see your brother's faults,
How hard it is to face your own.
While a man desires a woman,
His mind is bound
As closely as a calf to its mother.
As you would pluck an autumn lily,
Pluck the arrow of desire.
For he who is awake
Has shown you the way of peace.
Give yourself to the journey.
There is pleasure
And there is bliss.
Forgo the first to possess the second.
Live joyfully,
Without desire.
One man denies the truth.
Another denies his own actions.
Both go into the dark.
And in the next world suffer
For they offend truth.
If desires are not uprooted,
Sorrows grow again in you.
The wise man delights in the truth
And follows the law of the awakened.
The farmer channels water to his land.
The fletcher whittles his arrows.
And the carpenter turns his wood.
So the wise man directs his mind.
Master your senses,
What you taste and smell,
What you see, what you hear.
In all things be a master.
Of what you do and say and think.
Be free.
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