The Buddha Quotes

Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith

This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world:

Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream;
Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.

So is all conditioned existence to be seen.

Anger is the punishment we give ourselves for someone else's mistake.

those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.

From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief - so how fear?

The darkest night is ignorance.

He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.

Meditate, Ānanda, do not delay, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.

Your actions are your only belongings.

All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependent-arisings. All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependently imputed.

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those that a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.

Opinion, O disciples, is a disease; opinion is a tumour; opinion is a sore. He who has overcome all opinion, O disciples, is called a saint, one who knows.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain

Greater than all the joys
Of heaven and earth,
Greater still than dominion
Over all the worlds,
Is the joy of reaching the stream.