No sickness like hunger,

And no joy like the joy of

We are what we think.
All that we are arises with
our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make
the world.
Speak or act with an impure
mind
And trouble will follow you.
freedom.
You too shall pass away.
Knowing this, how can you
quarrel?
It is better to conquer
yourself
Than to win a thousand
battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
Not by angels or by demons,
Heaven or hell..
The fragrance of sandalwood
and rosebay
Does not travel far.
But the fragrance of virtue
Rises to the heavens.
You yourself, as much as
anybody in the entire
universe, deserve your love
and affection.

Every human being is the

Speak or act with an pure
mind
And happiness will follow
you
As your shadow, unshakable.
In this world
Hate never yet dispelled hate.
Only love dispels hate.
This is the law,
Ancient and inexhaustible.
Better than a thousand hollow
words
Is one word that brings peace.
Better than a thousand hollow
verses
Is one verse that brings
peace.
There is no fire like passion
No crime like hatred,
No sorrow like separation,
You are the source
author of his own health or
Of all purity and impurity.
disease.
No one purifies another.
It is better to do nothing
Health is the greatest gift,
Than to do what is wrong.
contentment the greatest
For whatever you do, you do
wealth, faithfulness the best
to yourself.
relationship.
To share happiness.
The mind is everything; what
And to have done something
you think you become.
good
Before leaving this life is
sweet
Hatred does not cease by
hatred, but only by love; this
is the eternal rule.
Master your words.
Master your thoughts.
Never allow your body to do
harm. Work out your own salvation.
Follow these three roads with Do not depend on others.
purity
And you will find yourself
upon the one way,
The way of wisdom.
It is a man's own mind, not
his enemy or foe, that lures
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him to evil ways.
Neither fire nor wind, birth
nor death can erase our good
deeds.
On a long journey of human
life, faith is the best of
companions; it is the best
refreshment on the journey;
and it is the greatest property.
Peace comes from within. Do
not seek it without.
The greatest prayer is
patience.
With gentleness overcome
anger.
With generosity overcome
meanness.
With truth overcome deceit.
. Indulge in food and sleep,
For in craving pleasure or in
nursing pain
There is only sorrow.
Never speak harsh words
For they will rebound upon
you.
Angry words hurt
And the hurt rebounds.
Like a broken gong.
Let go of anger.
Let go of pride.
When you are bound by
nothing
You go beyond sorrow.
The wise have mastered
Body, word and mind.
They are the true masters.
Let no one deceive another
or despise anyone anywhere,
or through anger or irritation
wish for another to suffer.
Give thanks
For what had been given to
you,
However little.
Be pure, never falter.
How easily the wind
overturns a frail tee.
Seek happiness in the senses,
And you too will be
uprooted.
The wind cannot overturn a
mountain.
Temptation cannot touch the
man
Who is awake, strong and
humble,
Who masters hiself and
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minds the law.
See the false as false,
The true as true.
Look into your heart.
Follow your nature.
In every trial
Let understanding fight for
you.
However many holy words
you read,
However many you speak,
What good will they do you
If you do not act upon them?.
Your worst enemy cannot
harm you
As much as your own
thoughts, unguarded.
But once mastered,
No one can help you as
much,
Not even your father or your
mother.
Health, contentment and trust
Are your greatest
possessions,
And freedom your greatest
joy.
Look within.
Be still.
Understand that the body
Is merely the foam of a wave,
The shadow of a shadow.
Desire never crosses the path
Of virtuous and wakeful men.
Whoever follows impure
thoughts
Suffers in this world and the
next.
In both worlds he suffers
And how greatly.
The true master lives in truth,
In goodness and restraint,
Non-violence, moderation
and purity.
The ignorant man is an ox.
He grows in size, not in
wisdom.
How easy it is to see your
brother's faults,
How hard it is to face your
own.
There is pleasure
And there is bliss.
Forgo the first to possess the
second.
Fresh milk takes time to sour. regret,
So a fool's mischief And fill yourself with joy.
Takes time to catch up with
him.
Like the embers of a fire
It smoulders within him.
For a while the fool's
mischief
Do what you have to do Tastes sweet, sweet as honey.
Resolutely, with all your Bit in the end it turns bitter.
heart. And how bitterly he suffers!
The traveller who hesitates
Only raises dust on the road.
Can you hide from your own
The wise man tells you
mischief.
Where you have fallen
Not in the sky,
And where you yet may fall -
Not in the midst of the ocean,
Invaluable secrets!
Nor deep in the mountains,
Follow him, follow the way.
Nowhere.
By your own folly
You will be brought as low
As you worst enemy wishes. Do not let pleasure distract
you
From meditation, from the
By your own efforts
way.
Waken yourself, watch
Free yourself from pleasure
yourself.
and pain.
And live joyfully.
You are the master.
Awake. The fool is his own enemy.
Be the witness of your The mischief is his undoing.
thoughts. How bitterly he suffers!
Turn away from mischief.
Again and again, turn away.
Look not for recognition
Before sorrow befalls you.
But follow the awakened
Set your heart on doing good.
And set yourself free.
Do not look for bad company
Why do what you will regret?
Or live with men who do not
Why bring tears upon
care.
yourself?
Find friends who love the
Do only what you do not
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truth.
Drink deeply.
Live in serenity and joy.
Beware of the anger of the
body.
Master the body.
Let it serve truth.
Beware of the anger of the
mouth.
Master your words.
Let them serve truth.
Beware of the anger of the
mind.
Master your thoughts.
Let them serve truth.
The greatest impurity is
ignorance.
Free yourself from it.
Be pure.
Free from passion and desire,
You have stripped the thorns
from the stem.
Happiness or sorrow -
Whatever befalls you, Walk
on
Untouched, unattached.
Be quick to do good.
If you are slow,
The mind, delighting in
mischief,
Will catch you.
Does the spoon taste the
soup?
A fool may live all his life
In the company of a master
And still miss the way.
Your work is to discover your
work
And then with all your heart
To give yourself to it.
Do not live in the world,
In distraction and false
dreams.
Outside the dharma.
How long the night to the
watchman,
How long the road to the
weary traveller,
How long the wandering of
many lives
To the fool who misses the
way.
You are far from the end of
your journey.
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
See how you love.
It is not iron that imprisons
you
Nor rope nor wood,
But the pleasure you take in
gold and jewels,
In sons and wives.
Soft fetters,
Yet they hold you down.
Can you snap them?
The rain could turn to gold
And still your thirst would
not be slaked.
Desire is unquenchable
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Or it ends in tears, even in
heaven.
If the traveller cannot find
Master or friend to go with
him,
Let him travel alone
Rather than with a fool for
company.
Few cross over the river.
Most are stranded on this
side.
On the riverbank they run up
and down.
But the wise man, following
the way,
Crosses over, beyond the
reach of death.
Follow the way of virtue.
Follow the way joyfully
Through this world and on
beyond!
The fool laughs at generosity.
The miser cannot enter
heaven.
But the master finds joy in
giving
And happiness is his reward.
If you are happy
At the expense of another
man's happiness,
You are forever bound.
You are a seeker.
Delight in the mastery
Of your hands and your feet,
Of your words and your
thoughts.
Delight in meditation
And in solitude.
It is you who must make the
effort.
Masters only point the way.
If you are filled with desire
Your sorrows swell
Like the grass after the rain.
But if you subdue desire
Your sorrows shall fall from
you
Like drops of water from a
lotus flower.
If you kill, lie or steal,
Commit adultery or drink,
You dig up your own roots.
And if you cannot master
yourself,
The harm you do turns
against you Grievously.
If he is a good man,
A man of faith, honoured and
prosperous,
Wherever he goes he is
welcome.
Like the Himalayas
Good men shine from afar.
But bad men move unseen
Like arrows in the night.
Thirty-six streams are
rushing toward you!
Desire and pleasure and
lust...
Play in your imagination with
them
And they will sweep you
away.
While a man desires a
woman,
His mind is bound
As closely as a calf to its
mother.
As you would pluck an
autumn lily,
Pluck the arrow of desire.
For he who is awake
Has shown you the way of
peace.
Give yourself to the journey.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
One man denies the truth.
Another denies his own
actions.
Both go into the dark.
And in the next world suffer
For they offend truth.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
If desires are not uprooted,
Sorrows grow again in you.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
The wise man delights in the
truth
And follows the law of the
awakened.
The farmer channels water to
his land.
The fletcher whittles his
arrows.
And the carpenter turns his
wood.
So the wise man directs his
mind.
Master your senses,
What you taste and smell,
What you see, what you hear.
In all things be a master.
Of what you do and say and
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think.
Be free.
He who goes naked,
With matted hair, mud-
bespattered,
Who fasts and sleeps on the
ground
And smears his body with
ashes
And sits in endless
meditation-
So long as he is not free from
doubts,
He will not find freedom.
He who lives purely and self-
assured,
In quietness and virtue,
Who is without harm or hurt
or blame,
Even if he wears fine clothes,
So long as he also has faith,
He is a true seeker.
Live joyfully,
Without desire.
A good friend who points out
mistakes and imperfections
and rebukes evil is to be
respected as if he reveals a
secret of hidden treasure.
Buddha
The Teachings of Buddha,
Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai.
A wise man, recognizing that
the world is but an illusion,
does not act as if it is real, so
he escapes the suffering.
Buddha
The Teachings of Buddha,
Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai.
An insincere and evil friend
is more to be feared than a
wild beast; a wild beast may
wound your body, but an evil
friend will wound your mind.
Buddha
The Teachings of Buddha,
Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai.
Endurance is one of the most
difficult disciplines, but it is
to the one who endures that
the final victory comes.
Buddha
The Teachings of Buddha,
Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai.
Good men and bad men
differ radically. Bad men
never appreciate kindness
shown them, but wise men
appreciate and are grateful.
Wise men try to express their
appreciation and gratitude by
some return of kindness, not
only to their benefactor, but
to everyone else.
Buddha
The Teachings of Buddha,
Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai.
The world, indeed, is like a
dream and the treasures of
the world are an alluring
mirage! Like the apparent
distances in a picture, things
have no reality in themselves,
but they are like heat haze.
To live a pure unselfish life,
one must count nothing as
one's own in the midst of
abundance.
Buddha
The Teachings of Buddha,
Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai.
Wherever there is light, there
is shadow; wherever there is
length, there is shortness;
wherever there is white, there
is black. Just like these, as
the self-nature of things can
not exist alone, they are
called non-substantial.
Buddha
The Teachings of Buddha,
Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai.
Do not speak harshly to any
one; those who are spoken to
will answer thee in the same
way. Angry speech is painful:
blows for blows will touch
thee.
Buddha
Wisdom of the Buddha: The
Unabridged Dhammapada.
Let a man avoid evil deeds as
a man who loves life avoids
poison.
Buddha
Wisdom of the Buddha: The
Unabridged Dhammapada.
All that we are is the result of
what we have thought. If a
man speaks or acts with an
evil thought, pain follows
him. If a man speaks or acts
with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a
shadow that never leaves
him.
Buddha
His success may be great, but
be it ever so great the wheel
of fortune may turn again and
bring him down into the dust.
Buddha
The Gospel of Buddha by
Paul Carus.
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Nothing is permanent or
sanatan. Everything is subject
to change. Being is always
Becoming.
Buddha
by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
Nothing is infallible. Nothing
is binding forever. Every
thing is subject to inquiry and
examination.
Buddha
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
This Ariyan Eightfold Path,
that is to say: Right view,
right aim, right speech, right
action, right living, right
effort, right mindfulness,
right contemplation.
Buddha
Buddhism and Indian
Civilization by R. K. Pruthi.
He who for the sake of
happiness hurts others who
also want happiness, shall not
hereafter find happiness.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
He who destroys life, who
utters lies, who takes what is
not given to him, who goes to
the wife of another, who gets
drunk with strong drinks -- he
digs up the very roots of his
life.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
The wise who hurt no living
being, and who keep their
body under self-control, they
go to the immortal Nirvana,
where once gone they sorrow
no more.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
A man is not a great man
because he is a warrior and
kills other men; but because
he hurts not any living being
he in truth is called a great
man.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
All beings fear before danger,
life is dear to all. When a
man considers this, he does
not kill or cause to kill.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Like a fish which is thrown
on dry land, taken from his
home in the waters, the mind
strives and struggles to get
free from the power of Death.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Overcome anger by
peacefulness: overcome evil
by good. Overcome the mean
by generosity; and the man
who lies by truth.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
The thought manifests as the
word;
The word manifests as the
deed;
The deed develops into
habit;
And habit hardens into
character.
So watch the thought and its
ways with care,
And let it spring from love
Born out of concern for all Enshrouded in darkness
beings. Should you not seek a light?
As t he shadow follows the Buddha
body, Dhammapada.
As we think, so we become.
Buddha Yet the Teaching is simple.
Dhammapada. Do what is right.
Be pure.
There is no fire like passion, At the end of the way is
there is no shark like hatred, freedom.
there is no snare like folly, Buddha
there is no torrent like greed. Dhammapada.
Buddha
Dhammapada. Do not what is evil. Do what
is good. Keep your mind
Let a man overcome anger by pure. This is the teaching.
love. Buddha
Buddha Dhammapada
Dhammapada.
To cease from evil, to do
We are shaped by our good, and to purify the mind
thoughts; yourself, this is the teaching
We become what we think. of all the Buddhas.
When the mind is pure, joy Buddha
follows Dhammapada.
Like a shadow that never
leaves. He who lives only for
Buddha pleasures, and whose soul is
Dhammapada. not in harmony, who
considers not the food he
What we think, we become. eats, is idle, and has not the
Buddha power of virtue -- such a man
Dhammapada. is moved by mara (evil one),
is moved by selfish
No one saves us but temptations, even as a weak
ourselves, tree is shaken by the wind.
No one can and no one may. Buddha
We ourselves must walk the Dhammapada.
path,
But Buddhas clearly show the The glorious chariots of
way. kings wear out, and the body
Buddha wears out and grows old; but
Dhammapada. the virtue of the good never
grows old.
Can there be joy and Buddha
laughter Dhammapada.
When always the world is
ablaze? If he makes himself as good
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as he tells others to be, then
he in truth can teach others.
Difficult indeed is self-
control.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
But truly, Ananda, it is
nothing strange that human
beings should die.
Buddha
Digha Nikaya.
Whatever is felt is within
suffering.
Buddha
Samyutta Nikaya.
This is deathless: the
liberation of the mind
through lack of clinging.
Buddha
Majjhima Nikaya.
Whatever is subject to
origination is all subject to
cessation.
Buddha
Dhammacakkappavattana
Sutta.
All compounded things are
subject to decay. Strive with
diligence!
Buddha
Mahaparinibbana Sutta.
The parts and powers of man
must be dissolved; work out
your own salvation with
diligence.
Buddha
Mahaparinibbana Sutta.
Sensual passions are your
first army.
Your second is called
Discontent.
Your third is Hunger &
Thirst.
I spit on my life.
Death in battle would be
better for me
than that I, defeated, survive.
Buddha
Padhana Sutta, on his battle
against personification of
temptation to evil.
That army of yours,
that the world with its devas
can't overcome,
I will smash with
discernment.
Buddha
Padhana Sutta.
In a world that has become
blind I go to beat the drum of
the Deathless.
Buddha
Ariyapariyesana Sutta.
Open are the doors to the
Deathless
to those with ears.
Let them show their
conviction.
Buddha
Ayacana Sutta.
. protector be? With oneself
Corporeality is transient,
feeling is transient,
perception is transient,
mental formations are
transient, consciousness is
transient.
Buddha
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Samyutta Nikaya - Buddha,
The Word by Paul Carus.
Just as a solid rock is not
shaken by the storm, even so
the wise are not affected by
praise or blame.
Buddha
Dhammapada
If a man going down into a
river, swollen and swiftly
flowing, is carried away by
the current - how can he help
others across?
Buddha
Sutta Nipata.
One should do what one
teaches others to do; if one
would train others, one
should be well controlled
oneself. Difficult, indeed, is
self-control.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Easy to do are things that are
bad and harmful to oneself.
But exceedingly difficult to
do are things that are good
and beneficial.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
One truly is the protector of
oneself; who else could the
fully controlled, one gains a
mastery that is hard to gain.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
With good will for the entire
cosmos, cultivate a limitless
heart: Above, below, and all
around, unobstructed, without
hostility or hate.
Buddha
Metta Sutta.
Overcome the angry by non-
anger; overcome the wicked
by goodness; overcome the
miser by generosity;
overcome the liar by truth.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
There are those who do not
realize that one day we all
must die. But those who do
realize this settle their
quarrels.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
The friend who is a
helpmate,
the friend in happiness and
woe,
the friend who gives good
counsel, the friend who
sympathizes too -
these four as friends the wise
behold
and cherish them devotedly
as does a mother her own
child.
Buddha
Sigalovada Sutta, Digha
Nikaya.
Crushing out of the conceit "I
am" -
this is the highest happiness.
Buddha
Udana.
Just as a tree, though cut
down, sprouts up again if its
roots remain uncut and firm,
even so, until the craving that
lies dormant is rooted out,
suffering springs up again
and again.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Wonderful it is to train the
mind so swiftly moving,
seizing whatever it wants.
Good is it to have a well-
trained mind, for a well-
trained mind brings
happiness.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Winning gives birth to
hostility. Losing, one lies
down in pain. The calmed lie
down with ease, having set
winning and losing aside.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Let no one deceive another
or despise anyone anywhere,
or through anger or irritation
wish for another to suffer.
Buddha
Karaniya Metta Sutta.
Though one may conquer a
thousand times a thousand
men in battle, yet he indeed is
the noblest victor who
conquers himself.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
"As I am, so are others; as
others are, so am I." Having
thus identified self and
others, harm no one nor have
them harmed.
Buddha
Sutta Nipata.
Were there a mountain all
made of gold,
doubled that would not be
enough
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to satisfy a single man:
know this and live
accordingly.
Buddha
Samyutta Nikaya.
Look not to the faults of
others, nor to their omissions
and commissions. But rather
look to your own acts, to
what you have done and left
undone.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Knowing that the other
person is angry, one who
remains mindful and calm
acts for his own best interest
and for the other's interest,
too.
Buddha
Samyutta Nikaya.
By doing evil, one defiles
oneself; by avoiding evil, one
purifies oneself. Purity and
impurity depend upon
oneself: no one can purify
another.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
One is not low because of
birth nor does birth make one
holy. Deeds alone make one
low, deeds alone make one
holy.
Buddha
Sutta Nipata.
Even when obstacles crowd
in, the path to Nibbana can be
won by those who establish
mindfulness and bring to
perfection equipoise.
Buddha
Samyutta Nikaya.

Whatever an enemy might do
to an enemy, or a foe to a foe,
the ill-directed mind can do
to you even worse.
Buddha
Udana.
Think not lightly of evil,
saying, "It will not come to
me." Drop by drop is the
water pot filled. Likewise, the
fool, gathering it little by
little, fills himself with e
Buddha
Dhammapada.
I have love for the footless,
for the bipeds too I have love;
I have love for those with
four feet, for the many-footed
I have love.
Buddha
Anguttara Nikaya.
Better it is to live one day
seeing the rise and fall of
things than to live as hundred
years without ever seeing the
rise and fall of things.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Learn this from the waters: in
mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets, but
great rivers flow silently.
Buddha
Sutta Nipata.
Life is swept along, next-to-
nothing its span. For one
swept to old age no shelters
exist. Perceiving this danger
in death, one should drop the
world's bait and look for
peace.
Buddha
Samyutta Nikaya.
The past should not be
followed after and the future
not desired; what is past is
dead and gone and the future
is yet to come.
Buddha
Majjhima Nikaya.
Make an island of yourself,
make yourself your refuge;
there is no other refuge.
Make truth your island, make
truth your refuge; there is no
other refuge.
Buddha
Digha Nikaya.
"Impermanent are all
compounded things." When
one perceives this with true
insight, then one becomes
detached from suffering; this
is the path of purification,
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Wisdom springs from
meditation; without
meditation wisdom wanes.
Having known these two
paths of progress and decline,
let a man so conduct himself
that his wisdom may
increase.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
Just as in the autumn a
farmer, ploughing with a
large plough cuts through all
the spreading rootlets as he
ploughs; in the same way,
bhikkhus, the perceiving of
impermanence, developed
and frequently practiced,
removes all sensual
passion…removes and
abolishes all conceit of ‘I
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am’.
Buddha
Samyutta Nikaya.
The conquest of oneself is
better than the conquest of all
others.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
To conquer oneself is a
greater task than conquering
others.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
By self alone is evil done, by
self alone does one suffer.
By self alone is evil left
undone, by self alone does
one obtain Salvation.
Salvation and Perdition
depend upon self; no man can
save another.
Buddha
Dhammapada.
It is nature's law that rivers
wind, trees grow wood, and,
given the opportunity, women
work iniquity.
Buddha
The Jataka.
You can search throughout
the entire universe for
someone who is more
deserving of your love and
affection than you yourself,
and that person is not to be
found anywhere. You
yourself, as much as anybody
in the entire universe, deserve
your love and affection.
Buddha