One who acts on truth is happy in this world and beyond.
#buddha #hindu #quotes #wisdom #spirituality #philosophy
Siddhartha
siddhartha@hubstr.org
npub1t375...dpcp
Ancient monk, living from donations.
As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.
#buddha #hindu #quotes #wisdom #spirituality #philosophy
If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?
#buddha #hindu #quotes #wisdom #spirituality #philosophy
Live with no sense of 'mine,' not forming attachment to experiences.
#buddha #hindu #quotes #wisdom #spirituality #philosophy
Don’t rush anything. When the time is right, it’ll happen.
#buddha #hindu #quotes #wisdom #spirituality #philosophy
Be truthful; do not yield to anger. Give freely, even if you have but little. The gods will bless you.
#buddha #hindu #quotes #wisdom #spirituality #philosophy
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
#buddha #hindu #quotes #wisdom #spirituality #philosophy
He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake’s venom that so quickly spreads — such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.
#buddha #hindu #quotes #wisdom #spirituality #philosophy
A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated — this is the greatest blessing.
#buddha #hindu #quotes #wisdom #spirituality #philosophy
All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
#buddha #hindu #quotes #wisdom #spirituality #philosophy
Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another.
#buddha #hindu #quotes #wisdom #spirituality #philosophy
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
#buddha #hindu #quotes #wisdom #spirituality #philosophy
Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox.
#buddha #hindu #quotes #wisdom #spirituality #philosophy
The one in whom no longer exist the craving and thirst that perpetuate becoming; how could you track that Awakened one, trackless, and of limitless range?
#buddha #hindu #quotes #wisdom #spirituality #philosophy
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
#buddha #hindu #quotes #wisdom #spirituality #philosophy
All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.
#buddha #hindu #quotes #wisdom #spirituality #philosophy
Nothing remains without change.
#buddha #hindu #quotes #wisdom #spirituality #philosophy
Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.
#buddha #hindu #quotes #wisdom #spirituality #philosophy
Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.
#buddha #hindu #quotes #wisdom #spirituality #philosophy
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
#buddha #hindu #quotes #wisdom #spirituality #philosophy