Gracious Buddha Photo by PH Morton
Gracious Buddha
Let us live happily then, not hating those who hate us.
– Buddha
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Buddha’s Advice Against Evil, Mistakes & Errors
Buddha
By PH Morton
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may would your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
– Buddha
Overcome anger by love, evil by good, the greedy by generosity, and the liar by truth.
– Buddha
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The evildoer suffers in this world, and he suffers in the next; he suffers in both. He suffers when he thinks of the evil he has done; he suffers more when going on the evil path.
– The Buddha
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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.
– The Buddha
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When you know in yourself that something is bad, then give it up, and accept the good and follow it.
– Buddha
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Work out your own salvation with diligence.
– Buddha
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You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
– Buddha
The Performing Buddha
“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
– Buddha
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The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
~Buddha
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Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
~Buddha
The Thinking Buddha
Introspective Buddha
“A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.”
– Buddha
All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil-thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.
– Buddha
All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with pure thoughts, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
– Buddha
As rain does not break through a well-thatched house, passion will not break through a well-reflecting mind.
– Buddha
Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings – that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
– Buddha
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.
-Siddhartha Gautama
“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.”
– Buddha
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
– Buddha
Buddhism teaches morality, enlightenment and the practise of true wisdom.
Through meditation one can focus on the Four Noble Truth:
1. That suffering exist
2. that suffering arises from attachment to desires.
3. That suffering can cease when attachment to desires ceases.
4. Freedom from suffering is possible by practising the Eightfold Path.
~ What is the Eightfold Path?
(I don’t know!)
Buddhism teaches morality, enlightenment and the practise of true wisdom.The Buddha & The Truth
Believe nothing merely because you have been told it.
– Buddha
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He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy of the yellow dress.
– Buddha
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Learn to distinguish between Self and Truth. Self is the cause of selfishness and the source of evil; truth cleaves to no self; it is universal and leads to justice and righteousness.
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They who imagine truth is untruth and see untruth in truth, never arrive at truth, but follow vain desires.
– Buddha
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They who know truth in truth, and untruth, arrive at truth, and follow true desires.
– Buddha
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“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
– Buddha
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Truth knows neither birth nor death; it has no beginning and no end. Welcome the truth. The truth is the immortal part of mind.
– Buddha
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Truth desires to appear; truth longs to become conscious; truth strives to know itself.
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There is truth in the stone, for the stone is here; and no power in the world, no god, no man, no demon, can destroy its existence. But the stone has no consciousness.
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There is truth in the plant and its life can expand; the plant grows and blossoms and bears fruit. Its beauty is marvellous, but it has no consciousness.
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