Bitter and poisonous as a serpent’s poison is sensual desire with which fools are infatuated. Crowded in hell, they have to spend their long, tortured lives there.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Passion
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
Topics: Merit
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
Just as the Brahmins worship the fire, so should you worship him by whom the doctrine, well-preached by the All-Enlightened one, is made known to you.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Man
Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.
—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
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Action, Ideas
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
Let him that has a merciful character be my friend.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Buddhism
In whom there is no respect for other members of the Order, far from the Dhamma is he as far from the sky is the earth.
—Buddhist Teaching
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
Love yourself and watch –
Today, tomorrow, always.
To straighten the crooked
You must first do a harder thing –
Straighten yourself.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: The Present, Responsibility
In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?
—Buddhist Teaching
You cannot expect people to give you due respect when you are in a place where your birth and qualifications are not yet recognized.
—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
You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Life and Living, Spirituality
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
Our loving Father, and Father of all that breathes.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Buddhism
A wise man should associate with a pious person who is delighted with morality and who is blessed with wisdom and knowledge, for it is a blessing to associate with such a person.
—Buddhist Teaching
Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold to the truth within yourself, as to the only truth.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Confidence
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Life and Living, Abundance
He whose hand is not wounded can carry poison. A poisonous liquid cannot seep into such a hand, nor can evil befall him who has done no wrong.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Sin
He who has forbearance brings benefit to others as well as to himself. He is also treading on the path to heaven and to the extinction of passions.
—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
Of all men, very few can cross the stream of life and death to the other bank of safety (Nibbana). The rest of them only run up and down on this side of the bank (of life and death).
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Man
The sorrow of others enters into the hearts of good men as water into the soil.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Buddhism
Hear ye all this moral maxim, and having heard it keep it well: Whatsoever is displeasing to yourselves never do to another.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Buddhism
This great principle of returning good for evil.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Buddhism
Sin easily develops.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Buddhism
Filled with compassion for all creatures.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Buddhism
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.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Truth
My duty is to bear all the insults which the heretics launch against me.
—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
He glorifies his group who is wise, courageous, learned, virtuous and lives up to the law of Righteousness.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Man
The wrongdoer, devoid of rectitude, … is full of anxiety when death arrives.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Buddhism
As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Thinking, Thought, Thoughts
Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Character
Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Wisdom
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
—Buddhist Teaching
Topics: Charity
To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.
—Buddhist Teaching