Category Buddha Vacana

“If a man suffering from a disease does not seek treatment, even when there is a physician at hand, it is not the fault of the physician. In the same way, if one is oppressed and tormented by the disease…

“I will teach you the burden, the taking hold of the burden, the lifting it up and the putting it down. And what is the burden? The answer is the five clinging aggregates. What five? Body, feeling, perception, mental constructs…

“I will teach you something, the parable of the raft for crossing over, not for clinging on to. Listen carefully, pay attention and I will speak. Say a man going along a highway might see a great stretch of water,…

“I will show you grasping and worry and I will show you the letting go of and freedom from grasping and worry. And what is grasping and worry? Concerning this, ordinary folk have this view: “This body is mine, I…

“I have learned two things: not to be content with good states one has already developed, and not to give up trying. Without giving up, I keep trying and think: “Gladly would I have my skin, bones and sinews wither…

“Humility means humbleness of mind and being unassuming in manner. A person possessing it has put away pride and arrogance, he resembles a foot-wiping cloth, a bull with its horns cut off, a snake with its fangs removed. He is…

“Having seen a shape with the eye, smelt a smell with the nose, savoured a taste with the tongue, felt a touch with the body or cognized a thought with the mind, he is not entranced by its general appearance…

“Greed, hatred and delusion are unskillful. Whatever the greedy, hating or deluded person does with body, speech or mind that is unskillful, also. Whatever one overwhelmed by greed, hatred or delusion, with mind uncontrolled, does to another, unjustly causing him…

“Giving up lying, one becomes a speaker of the truth, reliable, trustworthy, dependable, not a deceiver of the world. Giving up slander, one does not repeat what is heard here, or repeat here what is heard there, for the purpose…

“Do not be afraid of doing good deeds. It is another name for happiness. I know well that good deeds lead to a ripening, a blossoming, which is pleasing, joyous and happy for a long time.” – Itivuttaka 15