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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"Follow the way of virtue. Follow the way joyfully through this world and on beyond."

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"You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death"

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"The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage."

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"When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay."

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"If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all."

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"Why are you so sure parallel lines exist? Believe nothing, merely because you have been told it, or because it is traditional, or because you have imagined it."

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"Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think."

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"The world is on fire! And you are laughing? You are deep in the dark. Will you not ask for a light?"

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"For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world."

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"Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising of the noble eightfold path."

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"The whole secret of era is to specific no nervousness. Never nervousness what fortitude become of you, depend on no one. Free the twinkling you annul all help are you unrestricting."

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"Live happily, not hating even those who are hostile. Live peacefully even amongst those that hate."

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"Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities."

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"I manifested in a dreamlike way to dreamlike beings and gave a dreamlike Dharma, but in reality I never taught and never actually came."

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"The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality."

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"If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company."

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