Buddha Purnima wishes 2021: 301+ Quotes By bhagwan Buddha

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‘Buddha Purnima’ is also known as ‘Buddha Jayanti’. Buddha Purnima is celebrated to commemorate the birth, enlightenment and death (Nirvan) of Gautam Buddha, the three important events in the life of Buddha. It is celebrated on the full moon night in Vaisakha month according to the Hindu calendar that usually falls in April or May. This year buddha Purnima is on 19 May 2021.

This festival is celebrated throughout South-East Asia. This festival is celebrated by Buddhists. It is the holiest time in the Buddhist calendar. Buddha Purnima is also known as Vaisakha Puja in India. Do not forget to see and share buddha purnima wishes 2021

In Buddha Purnima devotees make donations to the temple. On this day the Buddhists bathe and wear only white clothes. Incense, flowers, candles and fruits are offered to the statue of the Buddha.

Short quotes by Bhagwan Buddha On Buddha Purnima

1. Life is pain.
2. Be your own lamp.
3. A jug fills drop by drop.
4. Attachment leads to suffering.
5. The darkest night is ignorance.
6. The greatest prayer is patience.
7. Be greatly aware of the present.
8. Nothing is forever except change.
9. He is able who thinks he is able.
10. Contentment is the greatest wealth
11. Rule your mind or it will rule you.
12. Patience is the highest asceticism.
13. With our thoughts, we make the world.
14. True love is born from understanding.
15. From a withered tree, a flower blooms
16. Doubt everything. Find your own light.
17. It is better to travel than to arrive
18. Your actions are your only belongings.
19. The trouble is, you think you have time.
20. The gift of truth excels all other gifts.
21. Happiness never decreases by being shared
22. Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.
23. Is it timely? Is it necessary? Is it kind?
24. Wear your ego like a loose-fitting garment.
25. Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
26. Hetun paticca sambutan hetu banga nirujjathi
27. Emotion arises from desire, hence an illusion.
28. Live every act fully, as if it were your last.
29. Greater still is the truth of our connectedness.
30. Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.
31. The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
32. May all that have life be delivered from suffering
33. The mind is everything. What you think, you become
34. The teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be pure.
35. The way is not in the sky; the way is in the heart.
36. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
37. It is possible to live 24 hours in a state of love.
38. Be where you are; otherwise, you will miss your life.
39. The less you have, the less you have to worry about.
40. All that we are is a result of what we have thought.
41. There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.
42. All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.
43. Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
44. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
45. Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except yourself.
46. Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts.
47. Love yourself and watch — today, tomorrow, and always.
48. If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.
49. People with opinions just go around bothering one another.
50. Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.
51. Ambition is like love, impatient of both delays and rivals
52. The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.
53. Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
54. Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.
55. You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.
56. Our life is shaped by our mind, for we become what we think.
57. The tongue like a sharp knife… Kills without drawing blood.
58. Those which arise dependently are free of inherent existence.
59. You don’t gather the beauty of a flower by plucking her petals.
60. Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.
61. There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
62. Vsetko co sme, je dosledkom je dosledkom toho, co sme si mysleli
63. Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.
64. Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.
65. You can not travel the path until you have become the path itself
66. Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.
67. Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.
68. If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.
69. Will not be punished for your anger, your anger is the punishment.
70. You must make the effort yourself. The masters only point the way.
71. Life is a river always flowing. Do not hold onto things. Work hard.
72. I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
73. The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next
74. Success isn’t the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
75. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
76. Three things can not hide for long: the moon, the sun, and the truth.
77. If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading
78. Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.
79. He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
80. The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.
81. Anger is the punishment we give ourselves for someone else’s mistake.
82. The universe itself is change and life itself is but what you deem it
83. What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.
84. The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
85. Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.
86. Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
87. To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.
88. Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me.
89. It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
90. How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are.
91. Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
92. If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?
93. You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.
94. She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair.
95. Tiga hal yang tidak bisa lama tersembunyi : matahari , bulan , dan kebenaran
96. The growth of wisdom may be measured exactly by the diminution of ill-temper
97. Penktadienio citata: ,,esame tai, ką mąstome. Savo mintimis kuriame pasaulį.
98. Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the depth of the ocean is calm.
99. It is in a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that leads him to evil ways.
100. Many do not realize that we here must die for those who realize the end of this quarrel.

Buddha Purnima 2021 Special Quotes

101. If you are facing in the right direction, all you need to do is keep on walking.
102. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
103. Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.
104. Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.
105. What you think, you become. what you feel, you attract. what you imagine, you create.
106. Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe
107. If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.
108. Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
109. Tune as the sitter, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.
110. Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it
111. All wrong-doing arises because of the mind. If the mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain
112. Be a lamp unto yourself, be a refuge to yourself. Take yourself to no external refuge.
113. Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.
114. One moment can change a day, one day can change a life and one life can change the world
115. Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.
116. There isn’t enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle.
117. When you like a flower, you just pluck it. but when you love a flower, you water it daily.
118. Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.
119. No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
120. Most problems, if you give them enough time and space, will eventually wear themselves out
121. So also is the case if I don’t care about the one abusing me. He is the one going to be demeaned.
122. As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise, you will miss most of your life.
123. When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky
124. The moment you see how important it is to love yourself, you will stop making others suffer.
125. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.
126. Más grande que la conquista en batalla de mil veces mil hombres es la conquista de uno mismo.
127. Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are, it solely relies on what you think.
128. Your worst enemy cannot hurt you as much as your own thoughts when you haven’t mastered them.
129. In separateness lies the world’s greatest misery; in compassion lies the world’s true strength.
130. When the aggregates arise, decay and die, o bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.
131. Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
132. Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.
133. Meditate, ānanda, do not delay, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.
134. Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
135. More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.
136. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
137. We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
138. All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.
139. Seseorang harus mencarikan kebahagiaan untuk orang lain sama seperti yang diinginkan untuk diri sendiri
140. «Me injurió; me hirió; me derrotó; me despojó.» En los que albergan tales rencores, nunca cesa el odio.
141. A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things that renew humanity.
142. Victory breeds hatred. The defeated live in pain. Happily, the peaceful life, giving up victory and defeat.
143. Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse
144. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
145. This I tell you: decay is inherent in all conditioned things. Work out your own salvation, with diligence.
146. Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
147. You are far from the end of your journey. the way is not in the sky. the way is in the heart. see how you love.
148. Meditate. live purely. Be quiet.do your work with mastery. like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine
149. Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.
150. Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.
151. To keep the body in good health is a duty… Otherwise, we shall not be able to keep our minds strong and clear.
152. Todo lo que somos es el resultado de lo que hemos pensado; está fundado y está hecho de nuestros pensamientos.
153. Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.
154. Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
155. Who has not led the holy life nor riches won while young, they linger on as aged cranes around a fished-out pond?
156. All too soon this body will lie on the ground, cast aside, deprived of consciousness, like a useless scrap of wood.
157. If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.
158. The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men.
159. There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.
160. From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there’s no grief – so how fear?
161. Believe nothing, no matter who said it, even if I said it unless it agrees with your own reason and common sense
162. When desire flows, pleasure arises. attached to happiness, seeking enjoyment, people are subject to birth and old age.
163. However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
164. Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt.
165. Delightful are forests where the public does not delight. there the passion-free delight, not seeking sensual pleasure.
166. Como pez fuera del agua, arrojado a terreno seco, este espíritu brinca intentando escapar del reino de la aflicción.
167. For behold your body —a painted puppet, a toy, jointed, sick and full of false imaginings, a shadow that shifts and fades.
168. If you knew what I know about the power of giving you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
169. I shall live here in the rains, there in winter, elsewhere in summer,” muses the fool, not aware of the nearness of death.
170. To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.
171. Of bones, the city is made, plastered with flesh and blood, where decay and death are deposited, and pride, and ingratitude.
172. Analyzing through special insight and realizing the lack of inherent existence constitute understanding of the signless.
173. Pure-limbed, white-canopied, one-wheeled, the cart rolls on. See him that cometh: faultless, stream-cutter, bondless he.
174. Como bella flor plena de color y también fragante, las palabras bien dichas dan fruto en aquel que las pone en práctica.
175. When you come upon a path that brings benefit and happiness to all, follow this course as the moon journeys through the stars.
176. There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
177. 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.
178. The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There’s only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment
179. All beings are owners of their karma. Whatever volitional actions they do, good or evil, of those they shall become the heir.
180. Greater than all the joys of heaven and earth, greater still than dominion over all the worlds, is the joy of reaching the stream.
181. Conquest breeds hatred, for the conquered live in sorrow. Let us be neither conqueror nor conquered, and live in peace and joy.
182. 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.
183. There are no chains like hate…dwelling on your brother’s faults multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey.
184. To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.
185. As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.
186. As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so, fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.
187. The rain could turn to gold and still your thirst would not be slaked. Desire is unquenchable or it ends in tears, even in heaven.
188. The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what’s skillful, the cleansing of one’s own mind: this is the teaching of the awakened.
189. All beings tremble before violence. all fear death.all love life. see yourself in others. then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?
190. Yt wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so (therefore) he escapes the suffering.
191. Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.
192. The fool worries, thinking, “I have sons, I have wealth.” Indeed, when he himself is not his own, whence are sons, whence is wealth?
193. A fool suffers, thinking, “I have children! I have wealth!”One’s self is not even one’s own. how then are children? How then is wealth?
194. Fearless, free of craving, and without blemish, having reached the goal and destroyed the arrows of becoming one is in one’s final body.
195. One who never punishes any living creature either strong or weak, who never kills or even strikes another, such a one I call brahmin.
196. A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving, and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
197. Bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya: for the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.
198. As one instructs others, so should one do oneself: only the self-controlled should restrain others. truly, it’s hard to restrain oneself.
199. Though all one’s life a fool associates with a wise person, one no more comprehends the Truth than a spoon tastes the flavor of the soup.
200. Who leaves behind all human bonds and has cast off the bonds of heaven, detached from all bonds everywhere: he is the one I call a brahmin.

Wish Happy Buddha Purnima 2021 with long sayings by buddha

201. Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good, it is to control the mind. A controlled mind brings happiness.
202. In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
203. In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.
204. Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all
205. It’s your road…and yours alone… others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. No matter what path you choose, really walk it.
206. Oneself, indeed, is one’s own protector. one does, indeed [make] one’s own destiny. therefore, control yourself as a merchant does a fine horse.
207. Uno podría conquistar a un millón de hombres en batalla, pero debería conquistarse sólo a sí mismo. Ése en verdad es el conquistador supremo.
208. What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our own mind
209. Don’t give yourself to negligence, don’t devote yourself to sensual pleasure, vigilant and absorbed in meditation one attains abundant happiness.
210. 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.
211. Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions, one goes to the presence of the gods.
212. Better it is to live alone; there is no fellowship with a fool. Live alone and do no evil; be carefree like an elephant in the elephant forest.
213. Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let him resolutely pursue a solitary course; there is no fellowship with the fool.
214. Pleasurable is dispassion in the world, the getting beyond sensuality. but the putting away of the conceit ‘i am’– this is the highest pleasure.
215. Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day’s life of one who is wise and meditative.
216. Na kalamat va na anche k bayan mikonand hich yek vagheiate bartar nist.zira bartarin vagheiat chizist k ba mohavere natavan b omghe an rah yaft.
217. Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.
218. Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
219. He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own self, and looks at everything with an impartial eye.
220. In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
221. Embrace nothing: if you meet the buddha, kill the buddha. if you meet your father, kill your father. only live your life as it is, not bound to anything.
222. Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those that a chick that has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.
223. In life, we can’t always control the first arrow. however, the second arrow is our reaction to the first. this second arrow is optional.—Sallatha sutta
224. You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.
225. All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependent-arisings. All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependently imputed.
226. 15. La buena gente brilla de lejos, como las montañas nevadas; los que no son buenos no se ven aquí, a semejanza de las flechas disparadas en la noche.
227. Those who consider the inessential to be essential and see the essential as inessential don’t reach the essential, living in the field of the wrong intention
228. If a traveler does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.
229. Venez, contemplez ce monde, multicolore comme les chars royaux, dans lequel les sots se plongent, et avec lequel les sages ne conservent point d’attaches.
230. 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.
231. Opinion, o disciples, is a disease; opinion is a tumor; opinion is a sore. He who has overcome all opinion, o disciples, is called a saint, one who knows.
232. Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.[Verse 223]
233. Following the noble path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light.
234. In this world hate never yet dispelled hate only love dispels hate this is the law ancient and inexhaustibly to shall pass away knowing this, how can you quarrel
235. Sensual craving gives rise to grief; sensual craving gives rise to fear. for someone released from sensual craving there is no grief, and from where would be fear?
236. Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
237. Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of lovingkindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.
238. 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.
239. A man asked Gautama Buddha, “I want happiness.”Buddha said, “First remove “I,” that’s ego, then remove “want,” that’s desire. see now you are left with only “happiness.
240. How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers of wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.
241. If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. Through no other cause does one come to peace.
242. Let a man leave anger, let him forsake pride, let him overcome all bondage! No sufferings befall the man who is not attached to name and form and who calls nothing his own.
243. Virtuous people always let go. they don’t prattle about pleasures and desires. Touched by happiness and then by suffering, the sage shows no sign of being elated or depressed.
244. Considera quem te aponta os defeitos como se te desvendasse tesouros. Segue o sábio que te reprova os erros. Na verdade, estar em tal companhia é um grande bem, e não um mal.
245. Como la estrella fugaz, el espejismo, la llama,la ilusión mágica, la gota de rocío, la burbuja en el agua, como el sueño, el relámpago o la nube:considera así todas las cosas.
246. Among all the sutras I have expounded, the lotus sutra is the first and foremost! If you are able to uphold the lotus sutra,it means you are able to uphold the body of a buddha!”
247. If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.
248. If with uncorrupted mind you feel goodwill for even one being, you become skilled from that. But a noble one produces a mind of sympathy for all beings, an abundance of merit.
249. What is happiness? Is it really happiness? Nothing stable, just happen, stay and decay… Everything is impermanence, dissatisfaction and nothing can ever belong to itself
250. He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.
251. So long as the love, even the smallest, of man toward woman is not destroyed, so long is his mind in bondage as the calf that drinks milk is to his mother.—Translated by f. Max müller
252. To life in the consciousness of the inevitability of suffering, of becoming enfeebled, of old age and of death, is impossible — we must free ourselves from life, from all possible life.
253. Those which are produced from causes are not produced. They do not have an inherent nature of production. Those who depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.
254. ‎Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.
255. Every day, I am thinking: ‘how can I lead all living beings to enter the unsurpassed way so as to quickly acquire the body of a buddha?” (Ls 16: 3.23) lotus sutra, chapter 16, section 3, paragraph 23
256. We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.
257. Just to say ‘i believe’ or ‘i do not doubt’ does not mean that you understand and see. To force oneself to see and accept a thing without understanding is political and not spiritual or intellectual.
258. As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water, and rises out of the water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world.
259. Let those who desire Buddhahood not train in many dharmas but only one. Which one? Great compassion. Those with great compassion possess all the buddha’s teaching as if it were in the palm of their hand.
260. Sometimes it’s better to be kind than to be right. We do not need an intelligent mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
261. Those who do not know satisfaction, even when living in a heavenly palace, are still not satisfied. Those who do not know satisfaction, even if rich, are poor. People who know satisfaction, even if poor, are rich.
262. Aquele que, ávido de desejos, colhe as flores das paixões é surpreendido pela morte antes mesmo da saciedade. Que o sábio viva em sua aldeia, assim como a abelha recolhe o néctar sem prejudicar a cor e o perfume da flor.
263. Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate. live in joy, in health, even among the afflicted. live in joy, in peace, even among the troubled. look within, be still. free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of the way.
264. Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.
265. There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
266. Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
267. Just as on a rubbish heap swept up on the main road a purely fragrant, delightful lotus might there spring up, even so amidst those rubbish heaps (of men) does the savaka of the perfectly enlightened one outshine in insight the blind puthujjana
268. Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given.
269. Words do not express thoughts very well; everything immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.
270. There are four nutriments for the maintenance of beings who have come into being or for the support of those in search of a place to be born: physical food, gross or refined; touch as the second; thinking the third, and consciousness the fourth.
271. For one who has abandoned craving and is free from grasping, who knows languages and their interpretations, the combinations of the letters and their order before and after, this is the final birth. The one is called the great being, the great sage.
272. A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.
273. The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life activity; it affords protection to all beings, offering shade even to the ax-man who destroys it.
274. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draw it. our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.
275. 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.
276. Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water, in the end, will fill a huge vessel.do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.
277. I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. the way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
278. Uno de los problemas que las personas parecen experimentar en el proceso de renovación propia es el de imaginar que necesitan apartar o reemplazar lo que únicamente deben reorganizar, e imaginar que sólo necesitan reorganizar lo que verdaderamente deben apartar o reemplazar.
279. What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.
280. Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, or by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith
281. This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world: like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream; like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream. so is all conditioned existence to be seen.
282. A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering 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.
283. First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words; second, rely on the teachings, not on the personality of the teacher; third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial interpretation; and fourth, rely on the essence of your pure wisdom mind, not on judgmental perceptions.
284. Among all shravakas and pratyekabuddhas, bodhisattvas are the foremost. So is the lotus sutra; among all sutras, it is the foremost! Just as the Buddha is the king of the law; so is the lotus sutra, it is the king of all sutras!” (Ls 23:2.16) lotus sutra, chapter 23, section 2, paragraph 16
285. It is like a lighted torch whose flame can be distributed to ever so many other torches which people may bring along; and therewith they will cook food and dispel darkness, while the original torch itself remains burning ever the same. It is even so with the bliss of the way.[Sutra of 42 sections]
286. Through the round of many births, I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again. house-builder, you’re seen! You will not build a house again. all your rafters broken, the ridge pole destroyed, gone to the Unformed, the mind has come to the end of craving.
287. Greater in battle than the man who would conquer thousand-thousand men is he who would conquer just one —himself. better to conquer yourself than others. when you’ve trained yourself, living in constant self-control, neither a deva nor gandhabba, nor a Mara banded with Brahmas, could turn that triumph back into defeat.
288. Wakefulness is the way to live. The fool sleeps as if he were already dead, but the master is awake and he lives forever. he watches. he is clear. how happy he is! For he sees that wakefulness is life. how happy he is, following the path of the awakened. with great perseverance meditates, seeking freedom and happiness.
289. Just as a line drawn on the water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering, full of tribulation. This one should wisely understand, one should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.
290. Sólo podemos controlar nuestras propias acciones; así como necesariamente no podemos proteger a los demás de las consecuencias de sus actos, tampoco podemos esperar honradamente que los demás nos salven de las consecuencias de nuestros propios actos una vez que hemos ejercido nuestro derecho o nuestra libertad a elegir nuestro camino.
291. All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon… If a man speaks or acts with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.
292. If a person has faith, bhāradvāja, he preserves truth when he says: ‘my faith is thus’; but he does not yet come to the conclusion: ‘only this is true, anything else is wrong.’ In this way, bhāradvāja, there is the preservation of truth; in this way he preserves truth; in this way, we describe the preservation of truth. But as yet there is no discovery of truth.
293. How, dear sir, did you cross the flood?”By not halting, friend, and by not straining I crossed the flood.”But how is it, dear sir, that by not halting and by not straining you crossed the flood?”When I came to a standstill, friend, then I sank; but when I struggled, then I got swept away. It is in this way, friend, that by not halting and by not straining I crossed the flood.
294. Through countless births in the cycle of existence I have run, not finding although seeking the builder of this house; and again and again, I faced the suffering of new birth. Oh, housebuilder! Now you are seen. You shall not build a house again for me. All your beams are broken, the ridgepole is shattered. The mind has become freed from conditioning: the end of craving has been reached.
295. Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.
296. The world is on fire! And are you laughing? You are deep in the dark. will you not ask for a light? For behold your body—a painted puppet, a toy, jointed and sick and full of false imaginings, a shadow that shifts and fades.how frail it is!Frail and pestilent,it sickens, festers and dies.like every living thing in the end it sickens and dies. behold these whitened bones, The hollow shells, and husks of a dying summer. and are you laughing?
297. Thus perceiving, monks, the learned noble disciple feels loathing for the body, for feeling, for perception, for the aggregates, for consciousness. Feeling disgusted, he becomes free from passion, through freedom from the passion he is emancipated, and in the emancipated one arises the knowledge of his emancipation. He understands that rebirth is destroyed, the religious life has been led, done is what was to be done, there is nothing beyond this world.
298. Jīvaka, I say that there are three instances in which meat should not be eaten: when it is seen, heard, or suspected [that the living being has been slaughtered for oneself]. I say that meat should not be eaten in these three instances. I say that there are three instances in which meat may be eaten: when it is not seen, not heard, and not suspected [that the living being has been slaughtered for oneself. I say that meat may be eaten in these three instances.
299. You are like the yellow leaf. the messengers of death are at hand. you are to travel far away. what will you take with you? You are the lamp to light the way. then hurry, hurry. when your light shines without impurity or desire you will come into the boundless country. your life is falling away. death is at hand. Where will you rest on the way? What have you taken with you? You are the lamp to light the way. then hurry, hurry. when your light shines purely you will not be born and you will not die.
300. Bhikkhus, all is burning. And what is all that is burning? The eye is burning, visible forms are burning, eye-consciousness is burning, eye-contact is burning; also whatever is felt as pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant that arises with eye-contact as its condition, that too is burning. Burning with what? Burning with the fire of greed, with the fire of hate, with the fire of delusion, with birth, aging, and death, with sorrow, with lamentation, with pain, grief, and despair it is burning.
301. Now, kalamata, don’t go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, ‘This contemplative is our teacher.’ When you know for yourselves that, ‘These qualities are skillful; these qualities are blameless; these qualities are praised by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to welfare & to happiness’ — then you should enter & remain in them.

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