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Founder of Buddhism
Born On
0563-00-00
Died On
0483-00-00
Birth Place
Lumbini, Nepal
Death Place
Kushinagar
Father
King Śuddhodana
Mother
Mahapajapati Gotami, Maya Devi
Spouse
Yaśodharā
Nationality
Nepalese
Spiritual & Religious Leaders, Leaders
There are a few great men who have inspired us to embrace non-violence even in the most turbulent situations and one of those eminent people is Lord Gautama Buddha. A perfect paradigm of this nature is narrated in an instance that resulted in a confrontation between a businessman and the Lord himself. One day, while Buddha was in the middle of his daily assemblage, an infuriated business man stormed into the court and paced straight towards Buddha. The businessman was miffed because every day his children had chosen to spend hours together in meditation with Lord Gautama rather than help him with his business, and the situation proved incredulous to him. Raged by the unprecedented fix, the man stood in front of Buddha and spat on the latter in the face. Though the followers of Buddha had already clenched their fists, readying to retaliate and only waiting for orders from their master, Buddha opened his eyes, looked at the man and only smiled. Baffled by the riposte of the Lord, the man darted out of the court, disconcert. For the first time in his life he had encountered a man who replied with a smile after being treated with disrespect. The man spent a night in sleeplessness; tossing and turning while the incident replayed in his head over and over again. While the man was forced into vigilance through the night until dawn, he felt a sudden transformation, one spurred by forgiveness. Trembling from what seemed like an anomalous situation to the man; he returned to the court of Buddha, fell at his feet and begged for forgiveness. In response to the gesture of repentance, Buddha replied,

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.

Love Universe
Gautama 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.

Inspiration Life Happiness
Gautama Buddha

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Strength
Gautama 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.

Mind
Gautama Buddha

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Life Past Future Mind
Gautama Buddha

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

World
Gautama Buddha

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Best Inspiration Health
Gautama 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.

Anger
Gautama Buddha

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Love Universe
Gautama Buddha

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Truth Moon
Gautama Buddha

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.

Victory
Gautama Buddha

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Love
Gautama Buddha

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Good Health Mind
Gautama Buddha

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Mind
Gautama Buddha

What we think, we become.

Inspiration
Gautama 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.

Good Peace Wisdom Happiness
Gautama Buddha

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Peace
Gautama Buddha

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

Death Life Suffering Health
Gautama Buddha

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Peace
Gautama Buddha

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Good Words
Gautama Buddha

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Wickedness Mind
Gautama Buddha

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

People
Gautama Buddha

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Good Wickedness Fear
Gautama Buddha

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

Travelling
Gautama Buddha

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Peace Mind
Gautama Buddha

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

Life Nothing
Gautama Buddha

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Anger
Gautama Buddha

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Good People Communication Words
Gautama Buddha

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Truth Mistakes
Gautama Buddha

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Gautama Buddha

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Death Fear
Gautama Buddha

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Life
Gautama Buddha

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Work
Gautama 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.

Men
Gautama Buddha

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Best Life
Gautama Buddha

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Death Life People Wisdom
Gautama Buddha

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

Gautama Buddha

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Good Life Wisdom
Gautama Buddha

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Peace Words
Gautama Buddha

He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.

Determination
Gautama Buddha

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

Unity
Gautama Buddha

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

Things
Gautama Buddha

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Wisdom Thought
Gautama 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.

Men Beauty World Heart
Gautama Buddha

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

Men
Gautama 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.

Time Wisdom World
Gautama Buddha

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

Mind
Gautama Buddha

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

Wisdom
Gautama Buddha

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Wickedness Semblance
Gautama Buddha

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Anger Truth
Gautama Buddha

A jug fills drop by drop.

Gautama Buddha

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Truth Wisdom World
Gautama Buddha

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

People World
Gautama Buddha

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

Obedience
Gautama Buddha

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Good Virtues
Gautama Buddha

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

Good
Gautama Buddha

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

Universe
Gautama Buddha

I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.

Truth World
Gautama Buddha

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

Good Growth
Gautama Buddha

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