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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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
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To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
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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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You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
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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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Think not lightly of evil, saying, 'It will not come to me.' Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the fool, gathering it little by little, fills himself with evil.
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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
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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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If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase:long life, beauty,happiness, strength.
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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
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Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
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Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.
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Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.