Gautama Buddha

Spiritual Teacher

Gautama Buddha was a spiritual leader whose teachings on suffering and enlightenment form the foundation of Buddhism, influencing millions worldwide.

Born
circa 563 BCE
Died
circa 483 BCE
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"Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant."

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"Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup."

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"Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stifled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal."

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"Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth."

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"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."

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"In the light of his vision that is the perspective that allows him to be grateful that things are not worse he has found his freedom and joy: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace."

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"Do not breathing in the chronological, do not dream of the later, drain the intellect on the bring about twinkling."

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"Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom."

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"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"

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"Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect."

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"The Tathagatha... is the originator of the path unarisen before, the producer of the path unproduced before, the declarer of the path undeclared before. He is the knower of the path, the discoverer of the path, the one skilled in the path. And his disciplines now dwell following that path and become possessed of it afterwards."

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"The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task."

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"If you can keep as silent as a broken gong, then you have attained, when you know no anger."

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"Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to the winning of knowledge and insight, to pleasant living in this very life, to the realization of the fruit of release by knowledge. What is that one thing: It is mindfulness centered on the body."

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"If beings knew, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they would not eat without having given."

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"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."

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