Food for the Soul - The Sayings of The Buddha - 14/06/2009

Anger is like a chariot careering wildly.
He who curbs his anger is the true charioteer.
Others merely hold the reins.

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Food for the Soul - The Teachings of The Buddha - 11/06/09

Let go of anger. Let go of pride.
When you are bound by nothing,
You go beyond sorrow.

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Food for the Soul - The Sayings of The Buddha - 02/06/2009

Free
yourself from pleasure and pain.

For
in craving pleasure or in nursing pain

There
is only sorrow.

 

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Dhammapada – The Sayings of The Buddha’

Food for the Soul - The Sayings of The Buddha - 21/05/2009

Look within.
Be still.
Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of the way.

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Food for the Soul - The Sayings of The Buddha - 18/05/2009

The winner sows hatred Because the loser suffers.

Let go of winning and losing and find joy.

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Food for the Soul - The Sayings of the Buddha - 2104/2009

He who wishes to awake Consumes his desires Joyfully.

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Food for the Soul - The Sayings of The Buddha - 20/04/2009

The rain could turn to gold And still your thirst would not be slaked.

Desire is unquenchable Or it ends in tears, even in heaven.

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Food for the Soul - The Sayings of The Buddha - 19/04/2009

Offend in neither word nor deed.

Eat with moderation.

Live in your heart.

Seek the highest consciousness.

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Food for the Soul - The Sayings of The Buddha - 19/03/2009

Your work is to discover your work

And then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

 

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Food for the Soul - The Sayings of the Buddha - 07/03/2009

By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes.
So the creeper chokes the tree.

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Food for the Soul - The Sayings of The Buddha - 01/03/2009

To straighten the crooked

You must first do a harder thing

Straighten yourself.

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Food for the Soul - The Sayings of The Buddha - 19/02/2009

Now I see you, O builder! And never again shall you build my house.

I have snapped the rafters, Split the ridgepole and beaten out desire. And now my mind is free.

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Food for the Soul - The Sayings of The Buddha - 15/02/2009

The glorious chariots of kings shatter. So also the body turns to dust.

But the spirit of purity is changeless and so the pure instruct the pure.

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Food for the Soul - The Sayings of The Buddha - 05/02/2009

How frail it is! Frail and pestilent, It sickens, festers and dies.

Like every living thing in the end it sickens and dies.


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Food for the Soul - The Sayings of The Buddha - 01/02/2009

Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless, be blameless.

Awake to the law and from all sorrow free yourself.


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Food for the Soul - The Sayings of The Buddha - 28/01/2009

A noble horse rarely feels the touch of the whip.

Who is there in this world as blameless?
 

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Food for the Soul - The Sayings of The Buddha - 27/01/2009

He who lives purely and  self-assured, in quietness and virtue,

Who is without harm or hurt or blame, even if he wears fine clothes,

So long as he also has faith, He is a true seeker.

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Food for the Soul - The Sayings of The Buddha - 27/01/2009

He who goes naked, With matted hair, mud-bespattered,

Who fasts and sleeps on the ground And smears his body with ashes

And sits in endless meditation So long as he is not free from doubts,

He will not find freedom.

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Food for the Soul - The Sayings of The Buddha - 21/01/09

He who harms the harmless Or hurts the innocent,

Ten times shall he fall

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Food for the Soul - The Sayings of The Buddha - 19/12/2008

Like a broken gong be still, be silent.

Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
 

‘The Dhammapada – The Sayings of The Buddha’