Crying with the wise is better than laughing with the fool.
If you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself to be pleased by good. Accumulating good is joyful.
The good shine from afar Like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don’t appear Even when near, Like arrows shot into the night.
For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.
Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn, unageing, und.
Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again.
It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.
What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.
Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people will not see me.
To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.
All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.
O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.
I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.
If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever.
You are all the Buddha.
In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water to nourish the see we have planted; in the end, compassion is like the warmth of the sun that brings the fruit to ripening.
The man that is dominated by Anger Doth not know what is seemly and seeth not the Law; That man whom Hate doth accompany, Becometh like unto murky darkness.
He that distributeth not That which he hath received – His food, his drink, his sustenance – Unto devotee, brahman, beggar, wayfarer – Such a low man as he, they say, is like Unto a lack of rain.
If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings – this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue.
Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.