Buddha Quotes and Sayings

1. The ignorant man is an ox.
   He grows in size, not in wisdom.
    
2. Your worst enemy cannot harm you
   As much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
   But once mastered,
   No one can help you as much,
   Not even your father or your mother.
    
3. The wind cannot overturn a mountain.
   Temptation cannot touch the man
   Who is awake, strong and humble,
   Who masters himself and minds the dharma.
    
4. Does the spoon taste the soup?
   A fool may live all his life
   In the company of a master
   And still miss the way.
    
5. The greatest impurity is ignorance.
   Free yourself from it.
   Be pure.
    
6. We are what we think.
   All that we are arises with our thoughts.
   With our thoughts we make the world.
    
7. Thirty-six streams are rushing toward you!
   Desire and pleasure and lust...
   Play in your imagination with them
   And they will sweep you away.
    
8. The wise man delights in the truth
   And follows the law of the awakened.
   The farmer channels water to his land.
   The fletcher whittles his arrows.
   And the carpenter turns his wood.
   So the wise man directs his mind.
    
9. If you are filled with desire
   Your sorrows swell
   Like the grass after the rain.
   But if you subdue desire
   Your sorrows shall fall from you
   Like drops of water from a lotus flower.