The Buddha Quotes

Pleasurable is dispassion in the world,
The getting beyond sensuality.
But the putting away of the conceit 'I am' — this is the highest pleasure.

Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse

Conquest breeds hatred, for the conquered live in sorrow. Let us be neither conqueror nor conquered, and live in peace and joy.

All individual things pass away, strive on untiringly.
Buddha to his students on his death bed

Nanda, I do not extol the production of a new existence even a little bit; nor do I extol the production of a new existence for even a moment. Why? The production of a new existence is suffering. For example, even a little [bit of] vomit stinks. In the same way, Nanda, the production of a new existence, even a little bit, even for a moment, is suffering. Therefore, Nanda, whatever comprises birth, [namely] the arising of matter, its subsistence, its growth, and its emergence, the arising, subsistence, growth, and emergence of feeling, conceptualization, conditioning forces, and consciousness, [all of that] is suffering. Subsistence is illness. Growth is old age and death. Therefore, Nanda, what contentment is there for one who is in the mother's womb wishing for existence?

Uno de los problemas que las personas parecen experimentar en el proceso de renovación propia es el de imaginar que necesitan apartar o reemplazar lo que únicamente deben reorganizar, e imaginar que sólo necesitan reorganizar lo que verdaderamente deben apartar o reemplazar.

Como la estrella fugaz, el espejismo, la llama,
la ilusión mágica, la gota de rocío,
la burbuja en el agua,
como el sueño, el relámpago o la nube:
considera así todas las cosas.

Sólo podemos controlar nuestras propias acciones; así como necesariamente no podemos proteger a los demás de las consecuencias de sus actos, tampoco podemos esperar honradamente que los demás nos salven de las consecuencias de nuestros propios actos una vez que hemos ejercido nuestro derecho o nuestra libertad a elegir nuestro camino.

"How, dear sir, did you cross the flood?"
"By not halting, friend, and by not straining I crossed the flood."
"But how is it, dear sir, that by not halting and by not straining you crossed the flood?"
"When I came to a standstill, friend, then I sank; but when I struggled, then I got swept away. It is in this way, friend, that by not halting and by not straining I crossed the flood."

Se un uomo viene colpito da una freccia avvelenata e non vuole che gli sia tolta prima di sapere chi l'abbia lanciata, a quale casta appartenga, quale sia il suo nome, quale sia la sua famiglia, quale sia la sua statura, quale sia la sua carnagione, da quale paese provenga, il tipo di arco che usa, il tipo di corda, il tipo di freccia, il tipo di penne, il tipo di punta, ecc., costui morirà prima di conoscere tutte queste cose.

na kalamat va na anche k bayan mikonand hich yek vagheiate bartar nist.zira bartarin vagheiat chizist k ba mohavere natavan b omghe an rah yaft.

For one who has abandoned craving and is free from grasping, who knows languages and their interpretations, the combinations of the letters and their order before and after, this is the final birth. The one is called the Great Being, the Great Sage.

Nothing whatsoever should be clung to as ‘I’ or ‘mine.' (Sabbe dhamma nalam abhinivesaya.)

Thus perceiving, monks, the learned noble disciple feels loathing for the body, for feeling, for perception, for the aggregates, for consciousness. Feeling disgust, he becomes free from passion, through freedom from passion he is emancipated, and in the emancipated one arises the knowledge of his emancipation. He understands that rebirth is destroyed, the religious life has been led, done is what was to be done, there is nothing beyond this world.

Los sabios son maestros de sí mismos, no los conmueven las opiniones de los demás, tienen la mente clara, son pacíficos, tienen principios, son independientes y están libres de compulsiones.