religious teacher (5th or 6th century BCE)
The darkest night is ignorance.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
The Gospel of Buddha
We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Dhammapada
He that hath sinned
In body, word, or thought,
Or in anything
That is called sinful,
Doing not that which is righteous,
But doing much that is unrighteous--
This fool after the dissolution of the body,
Shall go to perdition.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Iti-Vuttaka
Nothing brings suffering as does
the untamed, uncontrolled unattended and unrestrained heart.
That heart brings suffering.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Anguttara Nikaya
To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Dhammapada
A life of chastity ... is the road that leadeth to Nirvana.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Iti-Vuttaka
Nothing brings joy as does a
tamed, controlled, attended and restrained heart.
This heart brings joy.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Anguttara Nikaya
The sharpest sword is a word spoken in wrath.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
The Gospel of Buddha
The fiercest fire is hatred.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
The Gospel of Buddha
Look on Sin and loathe it;
With minds loathing it,
Then will ye make
An end of Misery.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Iti-Vuttaka
Through their proper knowledge
Creatures of Discernment forsake that Desire
Through which lustful creatures
Go to misfortune.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Iti-Vuttaka
An invulnerable armor is patience.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
The Gospel of Buddha
For he that is delighted by concord,
And who abideth in the Law,
Falleth not from Security.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Iti-Vuttaka
The most dangerous thief is unwholesome thought.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
The Gospel of Buddha
Whatsoever misfortunes there are
Here in this world or in the next,
They all have their root in Ignorance
And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Iti-Vuttaka
The most precious treasure is virtue.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
The Gospel of Buddha
By the destruction of his Cravings,
This monk hath extinguished Hunger, and hath attained Nirvana.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Iti-Vuttaka
The man that is dominated by Anger
Doth not know what is seemly and seeth not the Law;
That man whom Hate doth accompany,
Becometh like unto murky darkness.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Iti-Vuttaka
Destroy the man of wicked thoughts,
Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Iti-Vuttaka
When the gods know that a god hath fallen,
With this kindly feeling
They do encourage him--
Be thou a god again and again.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Iti-Vuttaka