“When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself.” The Buddha
“When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself.” The Buddha Click To Tweet(From the Samyutta Nikaya)
This is a genuine quote from the Buddhist scriptures. It’s from the Kamma Sutta
“Over there are the roots of trees; over there, empty dwellings. Practice jhana [meditation], monks. Don’t be heedless. Don’t later fall into regret. This is our message to you.”
The Buddha
[tweetquote]”Practice meditation … Don’t be heedless. Don’t later fall into regret.” The Buddha[/tweetquote]
“Having gone on his almsround, the sage should then go to the forest, standing or taking a seat at the foot of a tree. The enlightened one, intent on jhana, should find delight in the forest, should practice jhana at the foot of a tree, attaining his own satisfaction.” The Buddha
(Source: Nalaka Sutta, Sutta Nipata.)
This is a Real Buddha Quote. It comes from the Dhammapada.
Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good. Buddha
“The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.” The Buddha (From the Sutta Nipata)
“The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.” The Buddha Click To Tweet
“Radiate boundless love towards the entire world — above, below, and across — unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.” – The Buddha
(From the Metta Sutta)
“Radiate boundless love towards the entire world — above, below, and across — unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.” Click To Tweet
From the Dhammapada:
“By oneself is evil done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone; by oneself is one made pure. Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another.”
The Buddha
[tweetquote]”Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another.” The Buddha[/tweetquote]
This is a genuine Buddha quote. It’s from the Sallekha Sutta.
[tweetquote]”Meditate … do not delay, lest you later regret it.” The Buddha[/tweetquote]
This is a genuine Buddha quote, from the Dhammapada:
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.
This is a genuine Buddha quote.
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.
It’s from the Jara (old age) Sutta of the Sutta Nipata.
In the original Pali this is:
“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.” The Buddha Click To TweetUdabindu yathāpi pokkhare
Padume vāri yathā na lippati,
Evaṃ muni no palippati
Yadidaṃ diṭṭhasutaṃ mutesu vā.