Gautama Buddha
A good horse runs with seeing just the shadow of the whip.Collection: Running
Offensive acts come back upon the evil doer, like dust that is thrown against the wind.Collection: Dust
Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.Collection: Wise
If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.Collection: Buddhist
Beings are owners of their actions, heirs of their actions; they originate from their actions, are bound to their actions, have their actions as their refuge. It is action that distinguishes beings as inferior and superior.Collection: Heirs
Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.Collection: Happiness
Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is delusion's net.Collection: Cutting
By three things the wise person may be known. What three? He sees a shortcoming as it is. When he sees it, he tries to correct it. And when another acknowledges a shortcoming, the wise one forgives it as he should.Collection: Wise
Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness.Collection: Home
Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.Collection: Change
For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.Collection: Compassion
If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily.Collection: Buddhist
Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.Collection: Quality
The no-mind not-thinks no-thoughts about no-things.Collection: Inspirational
It is impossible for a man who is bogged to extricate another who is bogged.Collection: Men
Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.Collection: Buddhist
You too shall pass away. Knowing this, how can you quarrel?Collection: Knowing
Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true.Collection: Inspirational
Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.Collection: Gratitude
If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.Collection: Journey
All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.Collection: Evil
Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!Collection: Compassion
All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.Collection: Reality
Rain falls, wind blows, plants bloom, leaves mature and are blown away; these phenomena are all interrelated with causes and conditions, are brought about by them, and disappear as the causes and conditions change.Collection: Rain
Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.Collection: Running
A person creates what they defend against.Collection: Creativity
In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible.Collection: Buddhist
He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.Collection: Happiness
Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.Collection: Letting Go
Our good and bad deeds follow us almost like a shadow.Collection: Shadow
We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.Collection: Inspirational
Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think.Collection: Thinking
Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon you, ... Wonderful and delightful though they are, The Buddhas may nevertheless frighten you. Do not give in to your fright! Do not run away! Serenely contemplate the spectacle before you! Overcome your fear, and feel no desire! Realize that these are the rays of the grace of the Buddhas, who come to receive you into their Buddha-realms. Pray to them with intense faith and humility.Collection: Running
Beware of the anger of the body. Master the body. Let it serve truth. 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.Collection: Mind
I teach one thing and one only: that is, suffering and the end of suffering.Collection: Buddhist
Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.Collection: Home
Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mindCollection: Artist
Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.Collection: Hurtful
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.Collection: Believe
Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.Collection: Wise