Buddha
Buddha
Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni Buddha, or simply the Buddha, was an asceticand sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is believed to have lived and taught mostly in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries BCE...
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However many holy words you read,However many you speak,What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?
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The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.
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All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
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The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
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However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
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Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
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Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
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Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
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It is better to travel well than to arrive.
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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
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Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
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Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.