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Compilation of Thought-Provoking Quotes by Buddha on Life and Humanity
1. The root of all human suffering is attachment.
Don't dwell in the past forever, don't daydream about the future, live for the present moment.
The one who knows contentment is the wealthiest and happiest, for they never feel lacking. The greedy, selfish, and stingy remain the poorest souls despite their wealth, as their hearts breed harm.
In this world, there's no greater grace than a mother's love. Mothers bestow upon us the most marvelous gifts. I thank my mother... for she is my mother. Without her, the world would crumble... she showers life's every affection upon us.
Humans suffer when they're trapped in perspectives. Only when we break free from those perspectives can we find freedom and alleviate suffering.
Love's essence lies deep within each of us. We can bring happiness to others. A word, an action, a thought can ease sadness and increase joy for others.
Understanding others' pain is the greatest gift you can give them. Understanding is another name for love. If you can't understand, you can't love.
Love's roots run deep within each of us. We can bring happiness to others. A word, an action, a thought can ease sadness and increase joy for others.
Performing acts of kindness, offering respect, making offerings, or supporting one another is the path to universal love, the means to transform suffering into happiness, to help us and those sitting beside us, to live with knowledgeable hearts of loving kindness.
The ambitious can be saved, the insecure are hopeless, only when recognizing oneself, overcoming oneself, amending oneself, can one change others.
Darkness is not frightening, what's frightening is leaving darkness in one's life.
Without loving yourself, you cannot love others.
There is no fear for those whose minds are not overwhelmed by desires.
Those who uproot envy's source will always find peace within their souls.
One cannot be called wise for speaking well. The wise are those who are patient and unbound by hatred and fear.
The world is saddened by death and decay. But the wise are not saddened for they understand the nature of the world.
If something is worth doing, do it with all your heart.
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and that candle's life will not be diminished. Happiness never diminishes when we know how to share.
No one can save us except ourselves. No one can and no one will. We must walk our own path.
Our lives are shaped by our own minds. We will become what we think.
Good deeds reap good results.
Evil deeds reap evil results.
As you sow, so shall you reap.
Peace comes from within. Don't seek it outside.
Everything in life has a reason, can't be forced.
Silence is the best response to mockery.
Respect towards others is self-dignity.
If you can live through peaceful days, that's a blessing. Many today won't see the sun tomorrow, many today become disabled, lose freedom, or become homeless.
Arrival is random, departure is certain. So you need to 'Let fate remain unchanged, remain unchanged let fate decide'
Buddha teaches, deep connections merge, shallow ones dissolve, myriad phenomena depend on fate, not seeking brings no suffering. Therefore, perhaps one should adopt a calm attitude, smiling at the changes of life, seeing today's fallen leaves become tomorrow's sprouting buds on branches!
Husband and wife live and die together, a blink is agony but eternity is happiness.
The vast sea cannot contain a mother's love.
The expansive sky cannot cover a father's deeds.
Honoring ancestors is filial piety.
Repaying parents' kindness is the essence of being born.
Praying for father's tranquility.
Wishing mother a peaceful old age.
Whoever returns, I send a betel nut tray.
The front tray for mother, the rear tray for teacher.
Night after night, I light up the sky
Praying for parents to live their lives with me.
The Buddha's wise words about the boundless heart of parents
1. Father is a fragrant flower in life.
Mother's love shines brightly in the child's heart.
2. Traveling the world, no one compares to mother.
Life's hardships, who bears a heavier burden than father.
3. Endless gratitude for parents' selfless devotion.
Heaven and earth value the virtue of giving birth.
4. From dawn till dusk, mother nurtures and raises her children.
Father shields and supports his children with his lean back.
5. Abundant as tall mountains, parents' nurturing.
Vast as the wide sea, the virtue of giving birth.
6. Praying for father's tranquility.
Wishing mother a peaceful old age.
7. A lifetime of nurturing engraved in a child's heart.
Parental love lasts forever, never forgotten.
8. Father is the mountain, mother is the river.
Children, be filial and remember the gift of life.
9. Each person receives from life what they have invested in it.
10. Filial children bring joy to parents.
Harmonious home, everything falls into place.
11. When I slap the eastern sea dry,
Then I understand my parents' hearts.
12. Midnight moon falls onto the bridge,
For me, parents endure sun and rain.
13. We traverse many lifetimes to attain enlightenment thanks to the nurturing of our parents - The Discriminating Karmic Conditions Sutra
14. All men are our fathers, all women are our mothers. Through countless lifetimes we are born from them, hence in the six ways they are our parents - The Karmic Law of Cause and Effect
15. Parents are not like ordinary people. If we do good or bad things to our parents, our merits or sins will multiply many times.
16. Being filial to parents brings immeasurable blessings, while being unfilial brings immeasurable sins - Treasury of the Dharma Store Sutra.
17. Filial piety tops a hundred virtues. When filial piety reaches heaven, rain harmonizes with wind; when filial piety reaches earth, myriad beings are born; when filial piety reaches people, all blessings increase - Sutra on Filial Piety.
18. Being childless is reincarnation. Wise ones, it's not easy to find a sentient being in this long cycle who has never been a mother or a father - Sutra of Auspicious Responding.
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