Let a man not look down upon hit gains. Let him not crave for others’. A Bhikkhu, being greedy for others’ gains, will never have a concentrated mind.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Man
He who offends an offenseless man, … against such a fool the evil reverts, like fine dust thrown against the wind.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Buddhism
People with opinions just go around bothering each other.
—Buddhist Teaching
It is advisable for a wise person staying in a foreign land, however Brilliant as a fire he is, to endure the threatening even of the (native) slave.
—Buddhist Teaching
Our deeds are not lost, they will surely come (back again).
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Buddhism
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Charity
Having obtained power, a fool (usually) corrupts himself, and so hurts himself as well as others through his action.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Wisdom
All know the way; few actually walk it.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Action
To do good without knowing (what is) good never brings about happiness. The fool, like a monkey taking care of the orchard, destroys his own benefit.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Man
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Endurance, Resolve, Perseverance, Discipline
Just as a leaf has a rotten smell when it wraps up a rotten fish so is a person disgraced when he is befriended by the vicious person.
—Buddhist Teaching
What has been designated “name” and “family” … is but a term.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Buddhism
Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Love
Just as a leaf smells sweet when it wraps up a perfume herb, so does a man gain reputation when he is befriended by the wise.
—Buddhist Teaching
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Eternity
All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Mind, Thought
There is no sin which is so great that a liar cannot do, since he has put aside one virtue (of honesty) and ignores (the just retribution in) the hereafter.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Sin
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
An ill-fated person may accumulate wealth, but a (more) fortunate person, whether skilful or not, will come to use it (will benefit by it).
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Man
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
—Buddhist Teaching
Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the Buddha…Using the mind to look for reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
—Buddhist Teaching
For fear of causing terror to living beings, let the Bodhisattva striving to attain compassion refrain from eating flesh.
—Buddhist Teaching
In the end only three things matter: how fully you have lived, how deeply you have loved and how well you have learned to let go.
—Buddhist Teaching
He who is wise in the ancient law of Righteousness and is well-behaved will never go to the lower state of existence.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Man
Human sense-organs can be either useful or useless. Those uncontrolled are useless while those controlled are useful.
—Buddhist Teaching
Whosoever … harms living beings, … and in whom there is no compassion for them, let us know such as a “base-born”.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Buddhism
He who is shot by an arrow (of passion) has to run in all directions. Having taken it out, he no more runs nor sinks.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Passion
He glorifies his group who is wise, courageous, learned, virtuous and lives up to the law of Righteousness.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Man
A chance always passes the fool who is calculating the position of stars. It is an auspicious occasion in itself. What can the stars do?
—Buddhist Teaching
Those who search after truth should have a heart full of sympathy.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Buddhism