Gautama Buddha
The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.Collection: Buddhist
Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content.Collection: Desire
From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry.Collection: Passion
Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.Collection: Kindness
A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.Collection: Wise
Life is dear to all beings, they have the right to live the same that we do.Collection: Buddhist
It is easy to see the faults of others... it is hard to see our own.Collection: Buddhist
See the truth, and you will see me.Collection: Buddhist
We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.Collection: Experience
No matter what path you choose, really walk it.Collection: Matter
Dharma is not upheld by talking about it. Dharma is upheld by living in harmony with it.Collection: Buddhist
Mindfulness of the body leads to nirvana.Collection: Mindfulness
Those who are pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme Way. It is like polishing a mirror, which becomes bright when the dust is removed. Remove your passions, and have no hankering.Collection: Passion
He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.Collection: Buddhist
Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy.Collection: Buddhist
If we destroy something around us we destroy ourselves. If we cheat another, we cheat ourselves.Collection: Buddhist
Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.Collection: Ego
There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now.Collection: Inspirational
It is better to travel well then arrive.Collection: Buddhist
Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone elseCollection: Wise
When action comes out of nothing it creates no karma.Collection: Karma
You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.Collection: Flower
Please, try to eat a bit less meat, a bit more veggies from today. Let it become a habit gradually until not to eat meat anymore. Then, observe the changing of the body and spirit after eating veggies, fruits and grains.Collection: Kindness
Right perspective is no perspective or all perspectives.Collection: Perspective
For the wakeful one whose mind is quiet, whose thoughts are undisturbed, who has relinquished judgement and blame, there is no fear.Collection: Judgement
Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.Collection: Wise
Those who, relying upon themselves only, not looking for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who will reach the top-most height.Collection: Responsibility
Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence... Enter into rapture and pleasure born of silence derived of concentration and awareness that is free from thought and fabrication.Collection: Buddhist
We are what we think.Collection: Motivational
Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.Collection: Buddhist
Rage is a powerful energy that with diligent practice can be transformed into fierce compassion. However much we disagree with our enemies, our task is to identify with them. They too feel justified in their point of view.Collection: Powerful
Yet the Teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be pure. At the end of the way is freedom.Collection: Teaching
The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money.Collection: Son
Do not have as friends harmful people, the wise person does not associate with the worst of people. Have as friends virtuous people, the wise person associates with the best of people.Collection: Wise
Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind.Collection: Thinking
Truths cannot be acquired from words out of other people's mouths. Before Truths can be internalized, they must come from one's own realizations and practices. Through a lifetime of personal practice, human beings are capable of revealing all of the secrets of the cosmic essence. You are your own best judge.Collection: Essence
If it is not truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is not truthful and helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and helpful, wait for the right time.Collection: Buddhist
You must take action yourself, for Buddhas only teach the way.Collection: Buddhist
Mankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed.Collection: Beautiful
Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity so the wise man knows no hatred.Collection: Wise
Whatever the hateful do to the hateful, or an enemy to an enemy, worse is the harm of a misguided mind directed at oneself.Collection: Buddhist
The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.Collection: Wise
Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.Collection: Rivers
We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?Collection: Death
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.Collection: Positive
He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.Collection: Wise
My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.Collection: Buddhist
But ...meat eating in any form, in any manner, and in any place is unconditionally and once and for all prohibited ...Meat eating I have not permitted to anyone, I do not permit, I will not permit.Collection: Vegetarianism
The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old.Collection: Kings