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Gautama Buddha[note 3] (c. 563/480 – c. 483/400 BCE), also known as Siddhārtha Gautama,[note 4] Shakyamuni Buddha,[note 5] or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was an ascetic (śramaṇa) and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is believed to have lived and taught mostly in the eastern part of ancient India sometime between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE.[note 6]

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Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.

Accordance, Beautiful, Buddhist, Flower, Fruitless, Scent

Being able to make friends and keep them, welcoming others and sharing with them, a guide, philosopher and friend. One like this will be praised.

Able, Buddhist, Friend, Like, Praised, Welcome

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

Barker, Buddhist, Dog, Good, Positive, Talker

Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.

Dhamma, Good Luck, Gratitude, Humility, Reverence

Rage is a powerful energy that with diligent practice can be transformed into fierce compassion. However much we disagree with our enemies, our task is to identify with them. They too feel justified in their point of view.

Powerful, Compassion, Views, Point, Identify

The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable.

Buddhist, Discipline, Masters, Person, Self

So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, 'This contemplative is our teacher. ' When you know for yourselves that, 'These qualities are unskillful; these qualities are blameworthy; these qualities are criticized by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to harm & to suffering' - then you should abandon them.

Buddhist, Kalamas, Suffering, Teacher, Views, Wise

Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering. . . in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.

Brief, Death, Noble, Pleasing, Suffering, Unions

The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering after trinkets, children and wives, that, say the wise, is the strong fetter. It drags one down, and loose as it feels, it is hard to break. Breaking this fetter, people renounce the world, free from longing and abandoning sensuality.

Buddhist, Feels, Hard, Strong, Wise, Wives

A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing.

Blessing, Buddhist, Fortune, Mind, Unruffled, Vagaries

Dependent Origination is the teaching (that life) is not the mere play of blind chance, but has an existence that is dependent upon conditions. That, precisely with the removal of these conditions, those things that have arisen in dependence upon them-thus also all suffering-must perforce disappear and cease to be.

Karma, Life, Perforce, Play, Teaching

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

Buddhism, Buddhist, Evil, Good, Prove, Purity

May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to be afraid, and may those bound be free. May the powerless find power, and may people think of befriending each other. May those who find themselves in trackless, fearful wilderness- the children, the aged, the unprotected- be guarded by beneficent celestials, and may they swiftly attain Buddhahood.

Afraid, Buddhist, Children, Fearful, Freed, Thinking

A man who will be the public leader, must know how to be the public follower.

Follower, Followers, Know, Leader, Men

Harm no other beings. They are just your brothers and sisters.

Nature, Brother, Animal, Harm, Beings, Brothers

Live in Joy, In love, Even among those who hate. Live in joy, In health, Even among the afflicted. Live in joy, In peace, Even among the troubled. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.

Among, Buddhist, Fear, Hate, Love, Sweet

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Everything, Forgive, Forgiveness, Inspirational, Positive, Understand

All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.

Exactly, Facing Reality, Reality, Unhappiness

To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.

Drink, Evil, Good Luck, Luck, Refrain, Strong

Overcoming yourself is better than overcoming a million enemies in battle.

Battle, Enemies, Enemy, Overcoming

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