Buddha Sayings and Quotes

1. Be the witness of your thoughts.
    
2. Understand that the body
   Is merely the foam of a wave,
   The shadow of a shadow.
    
3. For a while the fool's mischief
   Tastes sweet, sweet as honey.
   Bit in the end it turns bitter.
   And how bitterly he suffers!
    
4. Weeds choke the field.
   Passion poisons the nature of man.
    
5. Do not live in the world,
   In distraction and false dreams.
   Outside the dharma.
    
6. Happiness or sorrow -
   Whatever befalls you, Walk on
   Untouched, unattached.
    
7. The rain could turn to gold
   And still your thirst would not be slaked.
   Desire is unquenchable
   Or it ends in tears, even in heaven.
    
8. If you are happy
   At the expense of another man's happiness,
   You are forever bound.
    
9. While a man desires a woman,
   His mind is bound
   As closely as a calf to its mother.
   As you would pluck an autumn lily,
   Pluck the arrow of desire.
   For he who is awake
   Has shown you the way of peace.
   Give yourself to the journey.