Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.

Monks, even if bandits were to savagely sever you, limb by limb, with a double-handled saw, even then, whoever of you harbors ill will at heart would not be upholding my Teaching. Monks, even in...

Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading

Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me.

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...

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.

Now, Kalamas, 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.’...

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 speak or act with an evil thought, suffering...

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

Here bhikkhus, some misguided men learn the Dhamma–discourses, stanzas, expositions, verses, exclamations, sayings, birth stories, marvels, and answers to questions–but having learned the Dhamma, they do not examine the meaning of those teachings with wisdom....

The Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts.

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.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

True love is born from understanding.

These… things, householder, are welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world:Long life is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world.Beauty is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in...

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...

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...

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...

Like a caring motherholding and guarding the lifeof her only child,so with a boundless heartof lovingkindness,hold yourself and all beingsas your beloved children.

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

Our life is shaped by our mind, for we become what we think.

Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Greater in battlethan the man who would conquera thousand-thousand men,is he who would conquerjust one —himself.Better to conquer yourselfthan others.When you’ve trained yourself,living in constant self-control,neither a deva nor gandhabba,nor a Mara banded with Brahmas,could...

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.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Suppose a man threw into the sea a yoke with one hole in it, and the east wind carried it to the west, and the west wind carried it to the east, and the north...

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.

Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.

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.

Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.

With our thoughts we make the world.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it

I shall live here in the rains,There in winter,Elsewhere in summer,” muses the fool,Not aware of the nearness of death.

Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts of alms, but if any good man or any good woman awakens the thought of Enlightenment and takes even...

Bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya:For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.

Vsetko co sme, je dosledkom je dosledkom toho, co sme si mysleli

May all that have life be delivered from suffering

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...

Purity or impurity depends on oneself,No one can purify another.