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Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhartha Gautama or the Buddha, was a spiritual leader and the founder of Buddhism. Born in the 6th century BC in the region of Lumbini, Nepal, he renounced his princely life to seek enlightenment. His teachings, emphasizing the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path, have profoundly influenced the lives of millions around the world.

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Famous Gautama Buddha Quotes

“An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is shelter. Whoever follows impure thoughts Suffers in this world and the next. In both worlds he suffers And how greatly.”

Ifs World Mind Suffering Passion Next House Strong Poor Meditation This World Rain Shelter Flood Roof Impure Thoughts

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“How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the way Beyond the world. Look within - The rising and the falling.”

World Way Feels Mind Looks Heart Joy Fall House Meditation Quiet Empty Rising Empty Houses

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“Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!”

Mind Compassion Independence Work Out Liberation Lamps Diligence

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“The no-mind not-thinks no-thoughts about no-things.”

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“The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.”

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“We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.”

Thinking World Inspirational Mind Speak Pure Our Thoughts

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“Rely on the teaching, not on the person; Rely on the meaning, not on the words; Rely on the definitive meaning, not on the provisional; Rely on your wisdom mind, not on your ordinary mind.”

Mind Persons Teaching Ordinary Rely

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“The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.”

Mind Body Lying Evil Hatred Abuse Murder Errors Tongue Idle Adultery Theft Slander Covetousness

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“Nirvana is this moment seen directly. There is no where else than here. The only gate is now. The only doorway is your own body and mind. There’s nowhere to go. There’s nothing else to be. There’s no destination. It’s not something to aim for in the afterlife. It’s simply the quality of this moment.”

Mind Moments Body Quality Aim Destination Gates Afterlife Mind And Body Doorways Nowhere To Go

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“The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters.”

Mind Body Wise Masters Dhammapada

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“Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.”

Mind Might Can Do Enemy Ill Foe Real Buddhist

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“The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened.”

Mind Evil Teaching Performances Awakened Skillful Cleansing

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“Our life is a creation of our mind.”

Mind Life Is Our Lives Creation

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“Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.”

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“Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind.”

Mind Hate Greed Delusion Imperfection Greediness

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“Through countless births in the cycle of existence I have run, not finding although seeking the builder of this house; and again and again I faced the suffering of new birth. Oh housebuilder! Now you are seen. You shall not build a house again for me. All your beams are broken, the ridgepole is shattered. The mind has become freed from conditioning: the end of craving has been reached.”

Mind Has Beens Ends Running Suffering House Existence Broken Birth Findings Seeking Buddhist Cycles Again And Again Craving Conditioning Shattered Beam Builder

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“Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.”

Mind Strong Term Path Awareness Enlightenment Determination Path To Enlightenment Strong Determination

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“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”

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“The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.”

Way Giving Mind Heart Done Would Be Happiness Hate Worry Hate You Live Simply

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“To awaken, sit calmly, letting each breath clear your mind and open your heart.”

Mind Heart Spiritual Clear Mindfulness Breaths Open Your Heart

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“Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you. Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, And you will be filled with joy. A fool is happy Until his mischief turns against him. And a good man may suffer Until his goodness flowers. Do not make light of your failings, Saying, 'What are they to me?' A jug fills drop by drop.”

Ifs Men Mind Heart May Light Joy Suffering Turns Meditation Failing Flower Fool Sorrow Goodness Filled Good Man Again And Again Doing Good Mischief Jugs

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“The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to compare it to something worse then it will create happiness, gratitude and pride but if it chooses to compare it to something better then it will create unhappiness, bitterness and envy.”

Ifs Mind Source Pride Gratitude Envy Compare Unhappiness Bitterness Something Better Source Of Happiness

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“If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.”

Ifs Men Inspirational Mind Virtue Pure Clarity Surroundings

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“Let your mind become clear like a still forest pool.”

Mind Stills Clear Meditation Forests Pool

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“The mind contains all possibilities.”

Mind Imagination Possibility

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“The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will rule you.”

Men World Giving Mind Reflection Glasses Every Man Giving Back

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“For the wakeful one whose mind is quiet, whose thoughts are undisturbed, who has relinquished judgement and blame, there is no fear.”

Mind Quiet Blame Judgement No Fear

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“Mind is everything. What we think, we become.”

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“This is deathless: the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging.”

Mind Liberation Clinging Deathless

Book:Zen Kittens

Source: Zen Kittens

“To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear.”

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Book:Zen Puppies: Meditations for the Wise Minds of Puppy Lovers

Source: Zen Puppies: Meditations for the Wise Minds of Puppy Lovers

“Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you.”

Ifs Mind Mischief Dhammapada

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“Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind.”

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“Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.”

Mind Happiness Speak Pure Shadow Unshakable Dhammapada

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“Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to the winning of knowledge and insight, to pleasant living in this very life, to the realization of the fruit of release by knowledge. What is that one thing: It is mindfulness centered on the body.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

About the Author

Born: 567 BC
Died: 484 BC
Known for: Founding Figure
Quotes: 1183

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