” Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.”
– Karaniya Metta Sutta
“As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.”
– Dhammapada, verse 320
“Whoever doesn’t flare up at someone who’s angry, wins a battle hard to win.”
-Subhasita-jaya Sutta
“Resolutely train yourself to attain peace”
– Utthana Sutta
“Meditate … do not delay, lest you later regret it.”
-Sallekha Sutta
“If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current — how can he help others across?”
-Sutta Nipata
“Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters shape wood; the wise master themselves.”
– Dhammapada, verse 80
“Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.”
– Udana
“’All conditioned things are impermanent’ — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.”
– Dhammapada, verse 277
“The one in whom no longer exist the craving and thirst that perpetuate becoming; how could you track that Awakened one, trackless, and of limitless range?”
Dhammapada, verse 180
Photo: A Buddhist monastery in a small village named ‘Ki’ in Himalaya, by Natalia Luzuriaga
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