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Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Tampa Bay, Florida,
USA
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Some Buddhist Quotations
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We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our
thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the
world.
Speak or act with an impure mind
And trouble will follow you
As the wheel follows the ox that
draws the cart.
We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our
thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the
world.
Speak or act with a pure mind
And happiness will follow you
As your shadow, unshakable.
"Look how he abused me and beat
me,
How he threw me down and robbed
me."
Live with such thoughts and you live
in hate.
"Look how he abused me and beat
me,
How he threw me down and robbed
me."
Abandon such thoughts and live in
love.
In this world,
hate never yet dispelled hate.
Only love dispels hate.
This is the law,
ancient and inexhaustible.
-- Ascribed to The
Buddha
from the Dhammapada,
as rendered by Thomas Byrom
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Your work is to discover your
work
And then with all our heart
To give yourself to it.
-- Ascribed to The
Buddha
from the Dhammapada,
as rendered by Thomas Byrom
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You make things worse
when you flare up
at someone who's angry.
Whoever doesn't flare up
at someone who's angry
wins a battle
hard to win.
You live for the good of both
-- your own, the
other's --
when, knowing the other's
provoked,
you mindfully
grow calm.
When you work the cure of
both
-- your own, the
other's --
those who think you a fool
know nothing of Dhamma.
-- Ascribed to The
Buddha
in The Samyutta Nikaya,
Translated
from the Pali by Thanissaro
Bhikkhu
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Taking care of ourselves,
wanderers, we also take care of
others;
taking care of others, we take
care of ourselves. ...
And how, wanderers, do we take
care of ourselves by taking care of
others?
With tolerance, with
non-violence, with friendship, with
patience ...
-- Ascribed to The
Buddha
in The Samyutta Nikaya
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May I be the
doctor and the medicine
And may I be the nurse
For all sick beings in the
world
Until everyone is healed
May I become an inexhaustible
treasure
For those who are poor and
destitute
May I turn into all things
they could need.
-- Santideva (8th
century, India)
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