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- The Highest Gift
The gift of Truth excels all other gifts.
- Accept Truth
If you find truth in any religion, accept that truth!
- See the Buddha
One who sees my teachings sees me.
- Serve The Buddha
One who serves the sick serves me.
- The Eternal Law
In this world hatred can never be appeased by hatred. Hatred can be appeased by love. This is the eternal law.
- World Within You
In this very one fathom long body along with perception and thoughts, I proclaim the world, the origin of the world, the
cessation of the world, and the path leading to the end of the world.
- Mind Is The Forerunner
By mind the world is led, by mind the world is drawn. And all men own the sovereignty of mind.
- Two Different Paths
One is the road that leads to worldly gain, one leads to deathlessness – Eternal Bliss.
- Everything Is Impermanent
All conditioned things are impermanent. When one see this is Wisdom, then one becomes dispassionate towards the painful.
- Ignorance
It is because you and I do not understand and comprehend the four noble truths that we have to run this long and weary round
of existence – Samsara.
- Lucky Day
Fools wait for a lucky day, but everyday is a lucky day for an industrious man.
- Worldly Ties
The secret of happiness lies in mind’s release from worldly ties.
- Insufficient Knowledge
The man of little learning grows old like the ox. His body grows but wisdom grows not.
- Life Is Dear To All
All tremble at the rod. All fear death. Feeling for others as for oneself, one should not neither strike nor cause to strike.
- A Religion To Practise
This is religion for one to come and practice but not just to come and believe.
- Evil-Doer Grieves
The evil-doer grieves here, he grieves hereafter. He grieves in both worlds. He grieves, he perishes with his own impure
deed.
- Vigilance and Negligence
Vigilance is the path to deathlessness. Negligence is the path to death. The vigilant do not die. The negligent are as if
dead already.
- Real Fool
The fool who is aware of his foolishness is wise at least to that extent. But the fool who thinks himself wise is a fool
indeed.
- Highest Virtues
Tolerance, patience and understanding are the highest virtues every man should develop.
- Righteous Living
The Middle Path of righteous living brings knowledge and understanding. It brings insight, leads to calm and wisdom, to
awakening – Nirvana.
- Fortunate People
Blessed are they who earn their living without hurting others.
- Equip Yourself
Vast learning, perfect handicraft, a highly trained discipline, and pleasant speech – this is a blessing.
- Your Duties
Support thy mother and father, Cherish loved ones and children. This is a blessing.
- Act Wisely
Do not associate with fools,
Associate with the wise,
Honour those who are worthy of honour –
This is a blessing.
- Behave Gently
Let not one deceive another, nor despise any person whatsoever in any place. In anger or ill-will, let him not wish any harm
to another.
- The Innocent
He who harms the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.
- Bad Habits
The man who is debauchee, a drunkard, a gambler, and who squanders whatsoever he possesses – is the cause of his own
downfall.
- Give Up Evil
Give up evil; it can be done. If it were not possible to give up evil, I would not say so. Since it can be done. I advise you
to give up evil.
- Caste Differences
Just as the great rivers such as the Ganga, the Yamuna, Aciravati, Sarabhu and Mahi, when they fall into the ocean lose their
former names and are known as the ocean, even so do the four castes of Kastriyas, Brahmins, Vaisyas, and the Sudras, when
they gone forth in the Doctrine and Discipline taught by the Buddha, from a home to a homeless life, lose their former names
and clans and are known as ascetics.
- Health and Contentment
Health is the greatest wealth; contentment is the greatest happiness.
- Vicious Mouth
In each man’s mouth at birth is born an axe, wherewith the fool who speaks ill cuts himself.
- Practice Before You Preach
Let a man apply himself to what is proper before he preaches others.
- Art of Talking
Speak the truth not untruth;
Say what is pleasant not unpleasant;
Speak what is true not false;
Speak only words that do not bring remorse
Nor hurt another. That is good speech indeed.
- Conquer Yourself
Though one should conquer a million men in battlefield, yet indeed, he is the noblest victor who has conquered himself.
- Strengthen Your Mind
Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.
- Develop Your Mind
As rain penetrates an ill-thatched house, so lust penetrates an undeveloped mind.
- Self-confidence
Do not depend on others; develop your self-confidence.
- Serve Others Wisely
Do not forget your spiritual development while serving others.
- Use Your Own Effort
It is through unshaken perseverance that I have reached the light, through unceasing effort that I have reached the peace
supreme. If you also will strive unceasingly, you too will within a short time reach the highest goal of bliss by
understanding and realizing it yourselves.
- Be Mindful
A young and strong person who does not strive when he should strive, who is given to idleness, who is loose in his purpose
and thoughts, and who is lazy – that idler never finds the way to wisdom.
- Fear
Wheresoever fear arises, it arises in the mind of the fool, not in that of the wise man.
- Real Peace
Real peace comes from within. Seek not from outside.
- Accept Wisely
One should not accept anything with mere faith; but one should use one’s common sense and intelligence before accepting
anything.
- Don’t Be Idle
A useful single day’s life of intense effort is better than a hundred years of idleness and inactivity.
- The Middle Path
Practice the Middle Path without going to extremes; practice it in every aspect of your life.
- Keep The Mind Fresh
When your physical body is sick, don’t allow your mind also to be sick.
- Loving-Kindness
Radiate your loving-kindness to every living being without any discrimination.
- Righteous Way of Life
He who leads a righteous way of life, will find that noble virtues itself to protect and guide him.
- Avoid Evil
Neither for the sake of oneself nor for the sake of another should one do wrong, not even for the sake of acquiring wealth,
kingdom or children, should one do wrong. Such a one is indeed virtuous, wise and righteous.
- Be Detached
He who never thinks of anything as ‘mine’, who does not feel the lack of anything, he is never worried by a sense of loss.
- The Origin
It is inconceivable to find the beginning of Samsara (cycle of birth and death). A first beginning of beings who
wander on in Samsara, bounded by ignorance and fettered by craving, cannot be seen.
- Reap What You Sow
According to the seed that’s sown;
So is the fruit you reap therefrom;
The doer of good will gather good;
The doer of evil, evil reaps.
- Cause and Effect
We are the results of what we were and we will be the results of what we are.
- You Are Responsible
Your misdeeds were not committed by your parents, nor by your brothers and sisters, nor by your friends nor kinsfolk, nor by
recluses and priests, it is you who are responsible.
- No Place To Hide
Not in the sky, nor in the mid-ocean, not in mountain cave, is found that place on earth where abiding one may escape from
the consequences of one’s own evil deed.
- Evil Deed
So long as an evil deed does not affect the fool, he thinks that it is honey; but when it affects him, then he comes to
grief.
- Highest Achievements
Acquire wisdom, practice devotion, morality, and charity.
- Happiness Here
The accomplishment of persistent effort, the accomplishment of watchfulness, good friendship and balanced livelihood leads to
happiness.
- Happiness of Renunciation
The happiness of the senses and the happiness of renunciation, but the greater of the two is the happiness of renunciation.
Reference : Sayings of The Buddha, Wisdom Series No 1, 3rd Edition. BMS Publication. Kuala Lumpur.
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