We are what we think.

All that we are arises with our thoughts.

With our thoughts we make the world.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Speak or act with an impure mind
And trouble will follow you.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Speak or act with an pure mind
And happiness will follow you
As your shadow, unshakable.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
In this world
Hate never yet dispelled hate.
Only love dispels hate.
his is the law,
Ancient and ine!haustible.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
"etter than a thousand hollow words
Is one word that brings peace.
"etter than a thousand hollow verses
Is one verse that brings peace.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
here is no fire like passion
#o crime like hatred,
#o sorrow like separation,
#o sickness like hunger,
And no $oy like the $oy of freedom.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
%ou too shall pass away.
&nowing this, how can you 'uarrel(
Buddha
Dhammapada.
It is better to con'uer yourself
han to win a thousand battles.
hen the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
#ot by angels or by demons,
Heaven or hell.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
%ou are the source
Of all purity and impurity.
#o one purifies another.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
It is better to do nothing
han to do what is wrong.
)or whatever you do, you do to yourself.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
o share happiness.
And to have done something good
"efore leaving this life is sweet
Buddha
Dhammapada.
*aster your words.
*aster your thoughts.
#ever allow your body to do harm.
)ollow these three roads with purity
And you will find yourself upon the one way,
he way of wisdom.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
he fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay
+oes not travel far.
"ut the fragrance of virtue
,ises to the heavens.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
%ou yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
-very human being is the author of his own health or
disease.
Buddha
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest
wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha
he mind is everything. what you think you become.
Buddha
herefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge
to yourselves. Hold fast to ruth as a lamp. hold fast to
the truth as a refuge. /ook not for a refuge in anyone
beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto
themselves, shall betake themselves to no e!ternal
refuge, but holding fast to the ruth as their lamp, and
holding fast to the ruth as their refuge, they shall reach
the topmost height.
Buddha
Mahaparinibbana Sutta.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. this
is the eternal rule.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Work out your own salvation. +o not depend on others.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
1
It is a man0s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures
him to evil ways.
Buddha
#either fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good
deeds.
Buddha
On a long $ourney of human life, faith is the best of
companions. it is the best refreshment on the $ourney.
and it is the greatest property.
Buddha
1eace comes from within. +o not seek it without.
Buddha
he greatest prayer is patience.
Buddha
With gentleness overcome anger.
With generosity overcome meanness.
With truth overcome deceit.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
)or in craving pleasure or in nursing pain
here is only sorrow.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
#ever speak harsh words
)or they will rebound upon you.
Angry words hurt
And the hurt rebounds.
/ike a broken gong.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
/et go of anger.
/et go of pride.
When you are bound by nothing
%ou go beyond sorrow.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
he wise have mastered
"ody, word and mind.
hey are the true masters.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
+o not believe in anything simply because you have
heard it. +o not believe in anything simply because it is
spoken and rumored by many. +o not believe in
anything simply because it is found written in your
religious books. +o not believe in anything merely on
the authority of your teachers and elders. +o not believe
in traditions because they have been handed down for
many generations. "ut after observation and analysis,
when you find that anything agrees with reason and is
conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then
accept it and live up to it.
Buddha
Kalama Sutta.
hink2 Happy, at rest,
may all beings be happy at heart.
Whatever beings there may be,
weak or strong, without e!ception,
long, large,
middling, short,
subtle, blatant,
seen 3 unseen,
near 3 far,
born 3 seeking birth2
*ay all beings be happy at heart.
Buddha
Karaniya Metta Sutta.
/et no one deceive another
or despise anyone anywhere,
or through anger or irritation
wish for another to suffer.
Buddha
Karaniya Metta Sutta.
As a mother would risk her life
to protect her child, her only child,
even so should one cultivate a limitless heart
with regard to all beings.
With good will for the entire cosmos,
cultivate a limitless heart2
Above, below, 3 all around,
unobstructed, without hostility or hate.
Whether standing, walking,
sitting, or lying down,
as long as one is alert,
one should be resolved on this mindfulness.
his is called a sublime abiding
here 3 now.
Buddha
Karaniya Metta Sutta.
4ive thanks
)or what had been given to you,
However little.
"e pure, never falter.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
How easily the wind overturns a frail tee.
Seek happiness in the senses,
Indulge in food and sleep,
And you too will be uprooted.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
he wind cannot overturn a mountain.
emptation cannot touch the man
Who is awake, strong and humble,
Who masters hiself and minds the law.
2
Buddha
Dhammapada.
See the false as false,
he true as true.
/ook into your heart.
)ollow your nature.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
In every trial
/et understanding fight for you.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
)ree yourself from attachment.
&now the sweet $oy of the way.
How $oyful to look upon the awakened
And to keep company with the wise.
How long the road to the man
Who travels the road with the fool.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
However many holy words you read,
However many you speak,
What good will they do you
If you do not act upon them(
Buddha
Dhammapada.
If a man0s thoughts are muddy,
If he is reckless and full of deceit,
How can he wear the yellow robe(
Whoever is master of his own nature,
"right, clear and true,
He may indeed wear the yellow robe.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
%our worst enemy cannot harm you
As much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
"ut once mastered,
#o one can help you as much,
#ot even your father or your mother.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Health, contentment and trust
Are your greatest possessions,
And freedom your greatest $oy.
/ook within.
"e still.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
5nderstand that the body
Is merely the foam of a wave,
he shadow of a shadow.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
+esire never crosses the path
Of virtuous and wakeful men.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Whoever follows impure thoughts
Suffers in this world and the ne!t.
In both worlds he suffers
And how greatly.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
he true master lives in truth,
In goodness and restraint,
#on6violence, moderation and purity.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
he ignorant man is an o!.
He grows in si7e, not in wisdom.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
How easy it is to see your brother0s faults,
How hard it is to face your own.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
here is pleasure
And there is bliss.
)orgo the first to possess the second.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
)resh milk takes time to sour.
So a fool0s mischief
akes time to catch up with him.
/ike the embers of a fire
It smoulders within him.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
+o what you have to do
,esolutely, with all your heart.
he traveller who hesitates
Only raises dust on the road.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
he wise man tells you
Where you have fallen
And where you yet may fall 6 Invaluable secrets8
)ollow him, follow the way.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
"y your own folly
%ou will be brought as low
As you worst enemy wishes.
Buddha
3
Dhammapada.
"y your own efforts
Waken yourself, watch yourself.
And live $oyfully.
%ou are the master.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Awake.
"e the witness of your thoughts.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
/ook not for recognition
"ut follow the awakened
And set yourself free.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Why do what you will regret(
Why bring tears upon yourself(
+o only what you do not regret,
And fill yourself with $oy.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
)or a while the fool0s mischief
astes sweet, sweet as honey.
"it in the end it turns bitter.
And how bitterly he suffers8
Buddha
Dhammapada.
9an you hide from your own mischief.
#ot in the sky,
#ot in the midst of the ocean,
#or deep in the mountains,
#owhere.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
+o not let pleasure distract you
)rom meditation, from the way.
)ree yourself from pleasure and pain.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
he fool is his own enemy.
he mischief is his undoing.
How bitterly he suffers8
Buddha
Dhammapada.
urn away from mischief.
Again and again, turn away.
"efore sorrow befalls you.
Set your heart on doing good.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
+o not look for bad company
+rink deeply.
/ive in serenity and $oy.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
"eware of the anger of the body.
*aster the body.
/et it serve truth.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
"eware of the anger of the mouth.
*aster your words.
/et them serve truth.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
"eware of the anger of the mind.
*aster your thoughts.
/et them serve truth.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
he greatest impurity is ignorance.
)ree yourself from it.
"e pure.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
)ree from passion and desire,
%ou have stripped the thorns from the stem.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Happiness or sorrow 6
Whatever befalls you, Walk on
5ntouched, unattached.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
"e 'uick to do good.
If you are slow,
he mind, delighting in mischief,
Will catch you.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
+oes the spoon taste the soup(
A fool may live all his life
In the company of a master
And still miss the way.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
9ross over to the father shore,
"eyond life and death.
+o your thoughts trouble you(
+oes passion disturb you(
"eware of this thirstiness
/est your wishes become desires
And desire binds you.
4
:uieten your mind.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
%our work is to discover your work
And then with all your heart
o give yourself to it.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
+o not live in the world,
In distraction and false dreams.
Outside the dharma.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
How long the night to the watchman,
How long the road to the weary traveller,
How long the wandering of many lives
o the fool who misses the way.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
%ou are far from the end of your $ourney.
he way is not in the sky.
he way is in the heart.
See how you love.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
It is not iron that imprisons you
#or rope nor wood,
"ut the pleasure you take in gold and $ewels,
In sons and wives.
Soft fetters,
%et they hold you down.
9an you snap them(
Buddha
Dhammapada.
he rain could turn to gold
And still your thirst would not be slaked.
+esire is un'uenchable
Or it ends in tears, even in heaven.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
If the traveller cannot find
*aster or friend to go with him,
/et him travel alone
,ather than with a fool for company.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
)ew cross over the river.
*ost are stranded on this side.
On the riverbank they run up and down.
"ut the wise man, following the way,
9rosses over, beyond the reach of death.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
)ollow the way of virtue.
)ollow the way $oyfully
hrough this world and on beyond8
Buddha
Dhammapada.
he fool laughs at generosity.
he miser cannot enter heaven.
"ut the master finds $oy in giving
And happiness is his reward.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
If you are happy
At the e!pense of another man0s happiness,
%ou are forever bound.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
%ou are a seeker.
+elight in the mastery
Of your hands and your feet,
Of your words and your thoughts.
+elight in meditation
And in solitude.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
It is you who must make the effort.
*asters only point the way.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
If you are filled with desire
%our sorrows swell
/ike the grass after the rain.
"ut if you subdue desire
%our sorrows shall fall from you
/ike drops of water from a lotus flower.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
If you kill, lie or steal,
9ommit adultery or drink,
%ou dig up your own roots.
And if you cannot master yourself,
he harm you do turns against you 4rievously.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
If he is a good man,
A man of faith, honoured and prosperous,
Wherever he goes he is welcome.
/ike the Himalayas
4ood men shine from afar.
"ut bad men move unseen
/ike arrows in the night.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
5
hirty6si! streams are rushing toward you8
+esire and pleasure and lust...
1lay in your imagination with them
And they will sweep you away.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
While a man desires a woman,
His mind is bound
As closely as a calf to its mother.
As you would pluck an autumn lily,
1luck the arrow of desire.
)or he who is awake
Has shown you the way of peace.
4ive yourself to the $ourney.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
One man denies the truth.
Another denies his own actions.
"oth go into the dark.
And in the ne!t world suffer
)or they offend truth.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
If desires are not uprooted,
Sorrows grow again in you.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
he wise man delights in the truth
And follows the law of the awakened.
he farmer channels water to his land.
he fletcher whittles his arrows.
And the carpenter turns his wood.
So the wise man directs his mind.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
*aster your senses,
What you taste and smell,
What you see, what you hear.
In all things be a master.
Of what you do and say and think.
"e free.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
He who goes naked,
With matted hair, mud6bespattered,
Who fasts and sleeps on the ground
And smears his body with ashes
And sits in endless meditation6
So long as he is not free from doubts,
He will not find freedom.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
He who lives purely and self6assured,
In 'uietness and virtue,
Who is without harm or hurt or blame,
Buddha
Dhammapada.
/ive $oyfully,
Without desire.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections
and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a
secret of hidden treasure.
Buddha
The Teachings of Buddha, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai.
A wise man, recogni7ing that the world is but an illusion,
does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
Buddha
The Teachings of Buddha, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a
wild beast. a wild beast may wound your body, but an
evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha
The Teachings of Buddha, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai.
-ndurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it
is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
Buddha
The Teachings of Buddha, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai.
4ood men and bad men differ radically. "ad men never
appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men
appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to e!press
their appreciation and gratitude by some return of
kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone
else.
Buddha
The Teachings of Buddha, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai.
he world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of
the world are an alluring mirage8 /ike the apparent
distances in a picture, things have no reality in
themselves, but they are like heat ha7e.
Buddha
The Teachings of Buddha, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai.
o live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as
one0s own in the midst of abundance.
Buddha
The Teachings of Buddha, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai.
Wherever there is light, there is shadow. wherever there
is length, there is shortness. wherever there is white,
there is black. ;ust like these, as the self6nature of
things can not e!ist alone, they are called non6
substantial.
Buddha
The Teachings of Buddha, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai.
+o not speak harshly to any one. those who are spoken
to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is
6
painful2 blows for blows will touch thee.
Buddha
Wisdom of the Buddha: The nabridged
Dhammapada.
/et a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life
avoids poison.
Buddha
Wisdom of the Buddha: The nabridged
Dhammapada.
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.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
+o not rely upon what has been ac'uired by repeated
tradition. nor upon lineage. nor upon rumour. nor upon
what is handed down in the teachings. nor upon logic.
nor upon inference. nor upon a consideration of
reasons. nor upon a delight in speculation. nor upon
appearances. nor upon respect for your teacher.
&almas, when you know for yourselves2 hese things
are unskilful. these things are blameable. these things
are censured by the wise. undertaken and observed,
these things lead to harm and suffering, then abandon
them.
Buddha
Kalama Sutta.
His success may be great, but be it ever so great the
wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down
into the dust.
Buddha
The !ospel of Buddha by "aul #arus.
#othing is permanent or sanatan. -verything is sub$ect
to change. "eing is always "ecoming.
Buddha
Buddha or Karl Mar$ by Dr. B. %. &mbedkar.
#othing is infallible. #othing is binding forever. -very
thing is sub$ect to in'uiry and e!amination.
Buddha
Buddha or Karl Mar$ by Dr. B. %. &mbedkar.
his is to be done by one skilled in aims
who wants to break through to the state of peace2
"e capable, upright, 3 straightforward,
easy to instruct, gentle, 3 not conceited,
content 3 easy to support,
with few duties, living lightly,
with peaceful faculties, masterful,
modest, 3 no greed for supporters.
+o not do the slightest thing
that the wise would later censure.
Buddha
Karaniya Metta Sutta.
%e must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of
unrighteous ways.
Buddha
Ma''hima()ikaya.
his Ariyan -ightfold 1ath, that is to say2 ,ight view,
right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right
effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.
Buddha
Buddhism and *ndian #i+ili,ation by %. K. "ruthi.
He who for the sake of happiness hurts others who also
want happiness, shall not hereafter find happiness.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
He who destroys life, who utters lies, who takes what is
not given to him, who goes to the wife of another, who
gets drunk with strong drinks 66 he digs up the very
roots of his life.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
he wise who hurt no living being, and who keep their
body under self6control, they go to the immortal
#irvana, where once gone they sorrow no more.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
A man is not a great man because he is a warrior and
kills other men. but because he hurts not any living
being he in truth is called a great man.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
All beings fear before danger, life is dear to all. When a
man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
/ike a fish which is thrown on dry land, taken from his
home in the waters, the mind strives and struggles to
get free from the power of +eath.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Overcome anger by peacefulness2 overcome evil by
good. Overcome the mean by generosity. and the man
who lies by truth.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
he thought manifests as the word.
he word manifests as the deed.
he deed develops into habit.
And habit hardens into character.
So watch the thought and its ways with care,
And let it spring from love
"orn out of concern for all beings.
As t he shadow follows the body,
7
As we think, so we become.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
here is no fire like passion, there is no shark like
hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent
like greed.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
/et a man overcome anger by love.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
We are shaped by our thoughts.
We become what we think.
When the mind is pure, $oy follows
/ike a shadow that never leaves.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
What we think, we become.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
#o one saves us but ourselves,
#o one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path,
"ut "uddhas clearly show the way.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
9an there be $oy and laughter
When always the world is abla7e(
-nshrouded in darkness
Should you not seek a light(
Buddha
Dhammapada.
%et the eaching is simple.
+o what is right.
"e pure.
At the end of the way is freedom.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
+o not what is evil. +o what is good. &eep your mind
pure. his is the teaching.
Buddha
+hammapada
o cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind
yourself, this is the teaching of all the "uddhas.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
He who lives only for pleasures, and whose soul is not in
harmony, who considers not the food he eats, is idle,
and has not the power of virtue 66 such a man is moved
by mara <evil one=, is moved by selfish temptations,
even as a weak tree is shaken by the wind.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
he glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body
wears out and grows old. but the virtue of the good
never grows old.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
If he makes himself as good as he tells others to be,
then he in truth can teach others. +ifficult indeed is self6
control.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
"ut truly, Ananda, it is nothing strange that human
beings should die.
Buddha
Digha )ikaya.
Whatever is felt is within suffering.
Buddha
Samyutta )ikaya.
his is deathless2 the liberation of the mind through lack
of clinging.
Buddha
Ma''hima )ikaya.
Whatever is sub$ect to origination is all sub$ect to
cessation.
Buddha
Dhammacakkappa+attana Sutta.
All compounded things are sub$ect to decay. Strive with
diligence8
Buddha
Mahaparinibbana Sutta.
he parts and powers of man must be dissolved. work
out your own salvation with diligence.
Buddha
Mahaparinibbana Sutta.
Sensual passions are your first army.
%our second is called +iscontent.
%our third is Hunger 3 hirst.
%our fourth is called 9raving.
)ifth is Sloth 3 +rowsiness.
Si!th is called error.
%our seventh is 5ncertainty.
Hypocrisy 3 Stubbornness, your eighth.
4ains, Offerings, )ame, 3 Status wrongly gained,
and whoever would praise self
3 disparage others.
hat, #amuci, is your enemy,
the +ark One0s commando force.
A coward can0t defeat it,
but one having defeated it
gains bliss.
Buddha
8
"adhana Sutta.
I spit on my life.
+eath in battle would be better for me
than that I, defeated, survive.
Buddha
"adhana Sutta, on his battle against personification
of temptation to e+il.
hat army of yours,
that the world with its devas can0t overcome,
I will smash with discernment.
Buddha
"adhana Sutta.
#othing tends toward loss as does an untamed heart.
he untamed heart tends towards loss.
#othing tends toward growth as does a tamed heart.
he tamed heart tends towards growth.
#othing brings suffering as does
the untamed, uncontrolled unattended and unrestrained
heart.
hat heart brings suffering.
#othing brings $oy as does a
tamed, controlled, attended and restrained heart.
his heart brings $oy.
Buddha
&nguttara )ikaya.
In a world that has become blind I go to beat the drum
of the +eathless.
Buddha
&riyapariyesana Sutta.
Open are the doors to the +eathless
to those with ears.
/et them show their conviction.
Buddha
&yacana Sutta.
his itself is the whole of the $ourney, opening your
heart to that which is lovely. "ecause of their feeling for
the lovely, beings who are afraid of birth and death,
aging and decaying, are freed from their fear. his is the
way you must train yourself2 I will become your friend
and an intimate of the lovely. o do this I must closely
observe and embrace all states of mind that are good.
Buddha
Samyutta )ikaya, The Buddha Speaks by &nne
Bancroft.
If a person teaches the way in order to transcend the
tyranny of material things and to teach how to
transcend feelings, perceptions, impulses, and
consciousness66teaching nonattachment with regard to
these66then that person can be called a speaker of the
way. If he is himself trying to transcend the pull of the
material world and to feel nonattachment toward it, then
it is fitting to say he is living in accordance with the way.
If he is liberated by this transcendence and
nonattachment, then you can say he has found nirvana
here and now.
Buddha
Samyutta )ikaya, The Buddha Speaks by &nne
Bancroft.
A corporeal phenomenon, a feeling, a perception, a
mental formation, a consciousness, which is permanent
and persistent, eternal and not sub$ect to change, such
a thing the wise men in this world do not recogni7e. and
I also say that there is no such thing.
Buddha
Samyutta )ikaya ( Buddha, The Word by "aul #arus.
"e it in the past, present, or future, whosoever of the
monks or priests regards the delightful and pleasurable
things in the world as impermanent, miserable, and
without a self, as diseases and cankers, it is he who
overcomes craving.
Buddha
Samyutta )ikaya ( The Word of the Buddha by
)yanatiloka -Bhikkhu..
9orporeality is transient, feeling is transient, perception
is transient, mental formations are transient,
consciousness is transient.
Buddha
Samyutta )ikaya ( Buddha, The Word by "aul #arus.
;ust as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so
the wise are not affected by praise or blame.
Buddha
+hammapada
If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly
flowing, is carried away by the current 6 how can he help
others across(
Buddha
Sutta )ipata.
One should do what one teaches others to do. if one
would train others, one should be well controlled
oneself. +ifficult, indeed, is self6control.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
-asy to do are things that are bad and harmful to
oneself. "ut e!ceedingly difficult to do are things that
are good and beneficial.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
One truly is the protector of oneself. who else could the
protector be( With oneself fully controlled, one gains a
mastery that is hard to gain.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless
heart2 Above, below, and all around, unobstructed,
without hostility or hate.
Buddha
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Metta Sutta.
Overcome the angry by non6anger. overcome the
wicked by goodness. overcome the miser by generosity.
overcome the liar by truth.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
here are those who do not reali7e that one day we all
must die. "ut those who do reali7e this settle their
'uarrels.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
he friend who is a helpmate,
the friend in happiness and woe,
the friend who gives good counsel, the friend who
sympathi7es too 6
these four as friends the wise behold
and cherish them devotedly
as does a mother her own child.
Buddha
Sigalo+ada Sutta, Digha )ikaya.
9rushing out of the conceit >I am> 6
this is the highest happiness.
Buddha
dana.
;ust as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its
roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving
that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up
again and again.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Wonderful it is to train the mind so swiftly moving,
sei7ing whatever it wants. 4ood is it to have a well6
trained mind, for a well6trained mind brings happiness.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Winning gives birth to hostility. /osing, one lies down in
pain. he calmed lie down with ease, having set winning
and losing aside.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
/et no one deceive another
or despise anyone anywhere,
or through anger or irritation
wish for another to suffer.
Buddha
Karaniya Metta Sutta.
hough one may con'uer a thousand times a thousand
men in battle, yet he indeed is the noblest victor who
con'uers himself.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
>As I am, so are others. as others are, so am I.> Having
thus identified self and others, harm no one nor have
them harmed.
Buddha
Sutta )ipata.
Were there a mountain all made of gold,
doubled that would not be enough
to satisfy a single man2
know this and live accordingly.
Buddha
Samyutta )ikaya.
/ook not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions
and commissions. "ut rather look to your own acts, to
what you have done and left undone.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
&nowing that the other person is angry, one who
remains mindful and calm acts for his own best interest
and for the other0s interest, too.
Buddha
Samyutta )ikaya.
"y doing evil, one defiles oneself. by avoiding evil, one
purifies oneself. 1urity and impurity depend upon
oneself2 no one can purify another.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one
holy. +eeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one
holy.
Buddha
Sutta )ipata.
-ven when obstacles crowd in, the path to #ibbana can
be won by those who establish mindfulness and bring to
perfection e'uipoise.
Buddha
Samyutta )ikaya.
Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a
foe, the ill6directed mind can do to you even worse.
Buddha
dana.
hink not lightly of evil, saying, >It will not come to me.>
+rop by drop is the water pot filled. /ikewise, the fool,
gathering it little by little, fills himself with e
Buddha
Dhammapada.
I have love for the footless, for the bipeds too I have
love. I have love for those with four feet, for the many6
footed I have love.
Buddha
&nguttara )ikaya.
"etter it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of
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things than to live as hundred years without ever seeing
the rise and fall of things.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
/earn this from the waters2 in mountain clefts and
chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow
silently.
Buddha
Sutta )ipata.
/ife is swept along, ne!t6to6nothing its span. )or one
swept to old age no shelters e!ist. 1erceiving this
danger in death, one should drop the world0s bait and
look for peace.
Buddha
Samyutta )ikaya.
he past should not be followed after and the future not
desired. what is past is dead and gone and the future is
yet to come.
Buddha
Ma''hima )ikaya.
*ake an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge.
there is no other refuge. *ake truth your island, make
truth your refuge. there is no other refuge.
Buddha
Digha )ikaya.
>Impermanent are all compounded things.> When one
perceives this with true insight, then one becomes
detached from suffering. this is the path of purification,
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Wisdom springs from meditation. without meditation
wisdom wanes. Having known these two paths of
progress and decline, let a man so conduct himself that
his wisdom may increase.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
;ust as in the autumn a farmer, ploughing with a large
plough cuts through all the spreading rootlets as he
ploughs. in the same way, bhikkhus, the perceiving of
impermanence, developed and fre'uently practiced,
removes all sensual passion?removes and abolishes all
conceit of @I amA.
Buddha
Samyutta )ikaya.
he con'uest of oneself is better than the con'uest of all
others.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
o con'uer oneself is a greater task than con'uering
others.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
obtain Salvation.
Salvation and 1erdition depend upon self. no man can
save another.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
It is nature0s law that rivers wind, trees grow wood, and,
given the opportunity, women work ini'uity.
Buddha
The /ataka.
%ou can search throughout the entire universe for
someone who is more deserving of your love and
affection than you yourself, and that person is not to be
found anywhere. %ou yourself, as much as anybody in
the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
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.
Buddha
o 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.
Buddha
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