A wise man who is grateful, faithfully keeps good company and duly gives a helping hand to those who are in trouble is called a virtuous person.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Man
Let a man not look down upon a small amount of good deeds, thinking that is will not bear fruit. This can be represented as a water-pot which can be filled by the dripping of water. A wise man, gradually accumulating his merits, will at length attain its perfection.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Merit
He should not break the branches of a tree under whose shade he used to sleep or sit, for a wicked man is he who betrays his friend.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Man
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
It is better to die in righteousness than to live in unrighteousness.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Buddhism
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
A friend to all creatures in the world.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Buddhism
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
Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
—Buddhist Teaching
The greatest prayer is patience.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Prayer
The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion.”
—Buddhist Teaching
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
With the advent of the Buddhas who are the torch-bearers, the doctrine leading to the extinction of suffering is thereby proclaimed.
—Buddhist Teaching
One reaps whatever one has sown. Those who do good receive good and those who do evil receive evil.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Action
Train your mind to be well-poised with the contemplation of the impurities of the body. Fix your attention on the body. Safeguard your weariness of worldly life.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Man
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Life and Living, Evil, Reason, Thought
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
Offensive language is harsh even to the brutes.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Buddhism
The wrongdoer, devoid of rectitude, … is full of anxiety when death arrives.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Buddhism
Whosoever strikes, or by words annoys, mother or father, brother or sister, … let us know such as a “base-born”.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Buddhism
Neither can the Vedas be of real help in the hereafter, nor can his birth nor relatives. Only his flawless morality can bring about the happiness in the hereafter.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Morality
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.
—Buddhist Teaching
Thus he lives as a binder together of those who are divided, an encourager of those who are friends, a peace-maker, a lover of peace, impassioned for peace, a speaker of words that make for peace.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Buddhism
He who offends an offenseless man, … against such a fool the evil reverts, like fine dust thrown against the wind.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Buddhism
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.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Doubt, Reason, Thought
Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Truth, Work, War, Purpose, Fail
This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Life
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
He who does not realize the benefit done to him destroys all goodness he wishes for. He who realizes the benefit done to him will have all the goodness he wishes for.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Action
Precept is the first refuge, the source and the chief of all other virtues. Therefore let it be purified.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Morality
There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Discipline, Mind, The Mind
The (real) treasure is that laid up … through charity and piety, temperance and self-control…. The treasure thus hid is secure, and passes not away. Though he leave the fleeting riches of the world, this a man carries with him a treasure that no wrong of others, and no thief, can steal.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Buddhism
The acts and the practice of religion, to wit, sympathy, charity, truthfulness, purity, gentleness, kindness.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Buddhism
In every birth he who gives out what is excellent, nicest and choicest will be endowed with long life and nobility.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Charity
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.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Health
Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride.
—Buddhist Teaching
Even so of all things that have … life, there is not one that (the Buddhist anchorite) passes over; … he looks upon all with … deep-felt love. This, verily, … is the way to a state of union with God.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Buddhism
Warned by the Divine Messengers, those who are still careless will enter the lower existence and regret for a long time.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Man
Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Karma
The wife … should be cherished by her husband.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Buddhism