Guest guest Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 Quotes by Buddha When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky. Buddha (563 - 483 BC) Contributed by: J.. More quotes added by Inner Peace from all sources Add Comment Print Send Permalink Those who awaken never rest in one place.Like swans, they rise and leave the lake.On the air they rise and fly an invisible course.Their food is knowledge.They live on emptiness.They have seen how to break free.Who can follow them? Buddha (563 - 483 BC) Source: Dhammapada Contributed by: Benyamin. More quotes added by Lion from all sources Add Comment Print Send Permalink More quotes about: rest, awakening, enlightenment, cycle, buddhism, buddha Do not accept what you hear by report, do not accept tradition, do not accept a statement because it is found in our books, nor because it is in accord with your belief, nor because it is the saying of your teacher. Be lamps unto yourselves. Those who, either now or after I am dead, shall rely upon themselves only and not look for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who shall reach the topmost height. Buddha (563 - 483 BC) Contributed by: Del Mulhern. More quotes added by nonsequiter from all sources Add Comment Print Send Permalink Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. Buddha (563 - 483 BC) Contributed by: Sarang. More quotes added by whoAmI? from all sources 2 Comments Print Send Permalink When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace. Buddha (563 - 483 BC) Contributed by: Sarang. More quotes added by whoAmI? from all sources Add Comment Print Send Permalink “As a lotus flower is born inwater, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above itunsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcomethe world, live unsoiled by the world” Buddha (563 - 483 BC) Contributed by: namaste. More quotes added by namaste from all sources Add Comment Print Send Permalink More quotes about: buddha, lotus, water It is our very search for perfection outside of ourselves that causes suffering. Buddha (563 - 483 BC) Contributed by: MC. More quotes added by MC from all sources Add Comment Print Send Permalink Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he clings neither to sense-pleasures, nor does he cling to views, nor to precepts and vows, nor to a Self-doctrine. Not clinking, he is not disturbed; not disturbed, he attains individually nibbana. Buddha (563 - 483 BC) Source: The Philosophy of Desire in the Buddhist Pali Canon (Routledgecurzon Critical Studies in Buddhism), Page: 167 Contributed by: Gendron. More quotes added by from this | all sources Add Comment Print Send Permalink More quotes about: attachment, clinging, buddhism Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor. Buddha (563 - 483 BC) Contributed by: Luella. More quotes added by Luella from all sources Add Comment Print Send Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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