Buddhist Quotes

• We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts.
  With our thoughts, we make our world.



• Do not dwell in the past. Do not dream of the future.
  Concentrate the mind on the present moment.



• Conquer the angry man by love.
  Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness.
  Conquer the miser with generosity.
  Conquer the liar with truth.
  ~ The Dhammapada



• In fact, everything we encounter in this world with our six senses is an inkblot test.
  You see what you are thinking and feeling, seldom what you are looking at.
  ~ Shiqin



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It's Important

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. ~Dalai Lama

It’s very important not to misunderstand what is meant by the idea of overcoming our self-cherishing attitudes. We are not saying that a spiritual practitioner should completely ignore or abandon the goal of self-fulfilment, rather we are advising him or her to overcome that small-minded selfishness that makes us oblivious to the wellbeing of others and to the impact our actions can have on them. ~Dalai Lama

The Nature of Things

Two monks were washing their bowls in the river when they noticed a scorpion that was drowning. One monk immediately scooped it up and set it upon the bank. In the process he was stung. He went back to washing his bowl and again the scorpion fell in. The monk saved the scorpion and was again stung. The other monk asked him, "Friend, why do you continue to save the scorpion when you know it's nature is to sting?"

"Because," the monk replied, "to save it is my nature."

   (Another version of this story describes a fox who agrees to carry a scorpion on its back across a river, upon the condition that the scorpion does not sting him. But the scorpion does indeed sting the fox when they are in midstream. As the fox begins to drown, taking the scorpion with him, he pleadingly asks why the scorpion has jeopardized both of them by stinging. "Because it's my nature." This story sometimes is attributed to Native Americans lore.)

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Happiness comes through taming the mind; without taming the mind there is no way to be happy. 
~ The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso