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Siddhartha Gautama

Founder of Buddhism

(c. 563 BCE - c. 483 BCE)

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Buddha

Founder of Buddhism

Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.
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Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.
Blessing - Goals - Kindness
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Mankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed.
Animals - Harmony - Kindness - Mankind - World
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Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the Discipline. If they are neither traceable in the Discourses nor verifiable by the Discipline, one must conclude thus: 'Certainly, this is not the Blessed One's utterance; this has been misunderstood by that bhikkhu - or by that community, or by those elders, or by that elder.' In that way, bhikkhus, you should reject it.
Blessing - Buddhism - Discipline - Misunderstanding - Reject - Studying - Verification
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Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.
Buddhism - Enemy - Harm - Inspiration - Life - Meditation
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Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.
Affliction - Buddhism - Hearing - Solitude - World
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The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next
Man - Virtue - World
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Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.
Buddhism - Happiness - Joy - Love - Ownership - Philosophy - Possession - Simple - Wisdom
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Observe the life by cause and consequence. Explore the life by wisdom. Treat the life by equality. Complete the life by love.
Balance - Consequence - Faith
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The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to compare it to something worse then it will create happiness, gratitude and pride but if it chooses to compare it to something better then it will create unhappiness, bitterness and envy.
Bitterness - Envy - Mindset - Pride - Unhappy
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You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Finding - Love - People - Searching - Universe
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Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.
Buddhism - Enlightenment - Luxury
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When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.
Water
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May everyone be happy and safe, and may their hearts be filled with joy.
Happiness - Joy - Safety
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(The real brahmin is the one who:) ... has crossed beyond duality ...knows no this shore, other shore, or both ...(is) settled in mind ... without inflowing thoughts ...is without attachment ...endures undisturbed criticism, ill-treatment and bonds, (and is) strong in patience ...(is) without anger, devout, upright, free from craving, disciplined and in his last body ...has experienced the end of his suffering here in this life, who has set down the burden, freed!
Attachment - Buddhism - Burden - End - Endurance - Illness - Mindset - Real - Strength - Suffering
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A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world.
Activism - Destiny - Environment - World - Writing
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All composite things pass away. Strive for your own liberation with diligence.
Diligence - Liberty
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Mind is everything. What we think, we become.
India - Mindset - Thinking
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Teach you? I cannot teach you. Go; experience for yourself
Teaching
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One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment.
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He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.
Holiness - Man - Strength - Vegetarian - Violence - Weakness
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Wherever we go, wherever we remain, the results of our actions follow us.
Actions - Buddhism
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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. - Buddha No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Buddhism - Dependence - Existence - Help - Meditation - Path - Reject - Secrets - Whole
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Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.
Buddhism - Eternity - Theory - Value - World
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Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion.
Authority - Buddhism - Delusion - Giving
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Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.
Creativity - Disgust - Existence - Individual - Karma - Movement - Pain - Pleasure
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We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is around us, we are the same as everything.
Buddhism - Fall - People - Rain
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The heavens and the earth may be captured by the mind's eye.
Earth - Heavens - Mindset
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When things are going well, be mindful of adversityWhen prosperous, be mindful of povertyWhen loved, be mindful of thoughtfulnessWhen respected, be mindful of humility
Humility - Mindfulness - Prosperity - Wellness
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The darkest night is ignorance.
Ignorance
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Nothing is to be clung to as I, me or mine
Inspiration
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Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
Buddhism - Enlightenment - Water
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