"Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life."
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Gautama Buddha quotes (page 39 of 59)
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"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."
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"If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox."
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"Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves."
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"One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path."
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"Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless, be blameless. Awake to the law. And from all sorrows free yourself."
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"Inflowing thoughts come to an end in those who are ever alert of mind, training themselves night and day, and ever intent on nirvana"
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"Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse."
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"You must take action yourself, for Buddhas only teach the way."
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"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"
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"Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease."
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"A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others."
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"As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good."
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"Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones"
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"Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds."
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"If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner"
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"Be a lamp unto yourself."
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"The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another."
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"He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain."
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"Conquer the angry man by love."
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