Like a fish taken out of its watery home and thrown onto the land, this mind, when parted with its haunts of sensual enjoyments in order to disregard Mara’s (the Evil One’s) influence, will give a desperate struggle.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: The Mind
Just as the merchants meet with disaster because of the water-demon, so will those who do not follow the instructions given by the Enlightened One.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Man
Even as a water-pot can be filled by the dripping of water, so a villain can be filled by his gradually accumulated evils.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Sin
Just as the vicious robber is caught at the opening (made by himself for the purpose of entering the house with a thieving intentions and will have to regret his own crime, so in the hereafter will the persons who have committed a sin.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Man
Long is the wandering over the states of being this and being that, when a person is befriended by craving. Never can he go beyond the cycle of rebirths.
—Buddhist Teaching
One who is given to anger and ill-will thereby refusing to forgive others’ faults which have been confessed, heaps hatred upon himself.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Man
One should not speak too much nor keep quiet all the time. When it is time to speak, let him speak moderately and not redundantly.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Speech
A careless person talking the Buddha’s words without putting any of them to practice himself, is like a hired cowboy counting the cows for others (never tasting their milk or having a part of the sale). Such a person can never share the taste of the four Stages of the Path.
—Buddhist Teaching
Time flits by day after day and night after night. The span of life is incessantly consumed. Life is gradually using up its duration like a rivulet being gradually dried up.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Death
A child without courage is like a night without stars.
—Buddhist Teaching
Dharma is not upheld by talking about it. Dharma is upheld by living in harmony with it.
—Buddhist Teaching
He should be known as a wretch who, after borrowing and spending other’s money, runs away or refuses the debt.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Man
A wise man is happy because of his wise management knowing how to hurry when it is time to hurry and slow down when it is time to slow down.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Man
Whenever a Noble One reaches the shore (destination) of the 2 kinds of phenomena (Mundane & Supra-mundane), all his binding ropes of passion come to an end.
—Buddhist Teaching
A wise man can manage (his life) even though he lacks wealth. But lacking wisdom, no fool can hold his ground.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Wisdom
The song of birds, the voices of insects, are all means of conveying truth to the mind; in flowers and grasses we see messages of the Way. The scholar, pure and clear of mind, serene and open of heart, should find in everything what nourishes him.
—Buddhist Teaching
Baleful is the result when an influential villain takes a short-cut road to richness. To the terrible realm of woe will the Lord of Hell drag down such a wailing fool.
—Buddhist Teaching
Passions increase in those haughty, careless persons who ignore what has to be done first and take up what ought to be done afterwards.
—Buddhist Teaching
Let not a wise man associate with the vicious. Let him associate with the virtuous. Because the vicious person will lead him to hell, while the virtuous person to the higher plane of existence.
—Buddhist Teaching
One who wants to do afterwards what should be done first, remorses like the youth (in a fable) who breaks (carelessly) the branches of the varunia tree.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Action
He is neither absorbed in sensual pleasure nor treat others with contempt. He also is gentle and ready-witted. Such a person is not credulous nor fluctuating.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Man
Discerning people, for the sake of their own benefit, should not allow themselves to be overpowered by covetousness. They should try to get rid of it.
—Buddhist Teaching
The five objects of sense-organs, with the mind as the sixth, were already made known. Whoever releases himself from sensual enjoyments will accordingly be liberated from suffering.
—Buddhist Teaching
In his present life a wise man who is perfectly equipped with morality is always honoured. After his death he will enter into the realm of bliss. He is thus blessed with rejoice everywhere.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Morality
Just as the bamboo is killed by its own fruit, so is a wicked person ruined by hatred, greed and delusion born of his own wicked mind.
—Buddhist Teaching
I have sought through all directions for one whom I can love more than myself, but in vain. So also does everybody love himself most. Every self-lover should therefore not violate others.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Man
Great is the power of the moon, the sun, the hermit and the sea-shore. But greater still is that of a woman.
—Buddhist Teaching
One who practises morality, having his words and deeds well-controlled, will be befriended by many, while one who does not behave himself in accordance with morality, who is given to immoral conduct, will be shut off from his friend.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Morality
By correcting our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.
—Buddhist Teaching
If a man wants to do good, let him do it again and be glad of it, for happiness is the outcome of the accumulation of good deeds.
—Buddhist Teaching
Those who seek for their happiness by harming or inflicting pain upon others are inextricably involved in hatred. They cannot be free from enmity.
—Buddhist Teaching
A wise man, having obtained wealth, usually helps his relatives. He is accordingly beloved here and will also rejoice in the hereafter.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Man
The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion.”
—Buddhist Teaching
He who is self-extolling and treats other with contempt, degrades himself through his own conceit. He should be known as a wretch.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Man
He who keeps bad company cannot enjoy the absolute happiness. He inflicts evil upon himself. He is the same us an iguana in a flock of chameleons.
—Buddhist Teaching
Beings are absorbed in the deepest dye of lust and wrapped up in the pitch-dark of ignorance. They do not realize the Buddha’s doctrine which is against the strong current of passions, and which is delicate, profound, very difficult to understand, and subtle.
—Buddhist Teaching
Let no man neglect his own profit (spiritual development) for the sake of others, however important they may be. Realizing what is for one’s own profit, let him attend to it earnestly.
—Buddhist Teaching
A villain’s cleverness is only for his own destruction. It corrupts his brains and kills his virtuous nature.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Wisdom
Pay no attention to the faults of others,
things done or left undone by others.
Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.
—Buddhist Teaching
If you want to get rid of your enemy, the true way is to realize that your enemy is delusion.
—Buddhist Teaching