The Buddha (also known as Siddhattha Gotama or Siddhārtha Gautama) was a philosopher, mendicant, meditator, spiritual teacher, and religious leader who lived in ancient India (c. 5th to 4th century BCE). He is revered as the founder of the world religion of Buddhism. He taught for around 45 years and built a large following, both monastic and lay. His teaching is based on his insight into duḥkha (typically translated as “suffering”) and the end of dukkha – the state called Nibbāna or Nirvana.
The Buddha was born into an aristocratic family, in the Shakya clan but eventually renounced lay life. According to Buddhist tradition, after several years of mendicancy, meditation, and asceticism, he awakened to understand the mechanism which keeps people trapped in the cycle of rebirth. The Buddha then traveled throughout the Ganges plain teaching and building a religious community. The Buddha taught a middle way between sensual indulgence and the severe asceticism found in the Indian śramaṇa movement. He taught a spiritual path that included ethical training and meditative practices such as jhana and mindfulness. The Buddha also critiqued the practices of brahmin priests, such as animal sacrifice.
A couple of centuries after his death he came to be known by the title Buddha, which means “Awakened One” or the “Enlightened One”. Gautama’s teachings were compiled by the Buddhist community in the Suttas, which contain his discourses, and the Vinaya, his codes for monastic practice. These were passed down in Middle-Indo Aryan dialects through an oral tradition. Later generations composed additional texts, such as systematic treatises known as Abhidharma, biographies of the Buddha, collections of stories about the Buddha’s past lives known as Jataka tales, and additional discourses, i.e, the Mahayana sutras. Read selected life changing Buddha Quotes here.
Buddha Quote
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
– Buddha
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
– Buddha
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
– Buddha
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
– Buddha
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To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
– Buddha
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
– Buddha
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
– Buddha
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
– Buddha
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
– Buddha
Greatest Buddha Quotes
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
– Buddha
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What we think, we become.
– Buddha
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
– Buddha
Motivational Buddha Quotes
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
– Buddha
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
– Buddha
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
– Buddha
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
– Buddha
A jug fills drop by drop.
– Buddha
I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
– Buddha
A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.
– Buddha
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.
– Buddha
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
– Buddha
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
– Buddha
Life Changing Buddha Quotes
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
– Buddha
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
– Buddha
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
– Buddha
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
– Buddha