The Buddha Quotes

Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

When it hurts, observe, life is trying to teach you something.

When you come upon a path
that brings benefit
and happiness to all,
follow this course
as the moon
journeys through the stars.

Life is pain

Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder.

Painful is birth again & again.

House-builder, you're seen!
You will not build a house again.
All your rafters broken,
the ridge pole destroyed,
gone to the Unformed,
the mind has come to the end of craving.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Most problems, if you give them enough time and space, will eventually wear themselves out

Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe

Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

One who never punishes any living creature either strong or weak, who never kills or even strikes another, such a one I call brahmin.

Buddha said, “Forgive? But I am not the same man to whom you did it. The Ganges goes on flowing, it is never the same Ganges again. Every man is a river. The man you spit upon is no longer here. I look just like him, but I am not the same, much has happened in these twenty-four hours! The river has flowed so much. So I cannot forgive you because I have no grudge against you.”

“And you also are new. I can see you are not the same man who came yesterday because that man was angry and he spit, whereas you are bowing at my feet, touching my feet. How can you be the same man? You are not the same man, so let us forget about it. Those two people, the man who spit and the man on whom he spit, both are no more. Come closer. Let us talk of something else.

The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

من يعتقد أنه قادر فهو قادر.

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.