The Buddha

The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)

"With energy, diligence,
restraint, and control,
the wise person should make an island
which no flood can overflow."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 2), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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The Buddha

The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)

"Having drunk the sap of solitude
and the savor of peace,
one is free of distress,
free from wrongdoing,
enjoying the delightful
flavor of the teaching."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 15), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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The Buddha

The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)

"A comfort is virtue into old age.
A comfort is the establishment of conviction.
A comfort is the attainment of insightful knowledge.
Not acting destructively is a comfort."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 23), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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The Buddha

The Buddha (6th-5th century BCE)

"Irrigators guide the water.
Fletchers shape the arrow shaft.
Carpenters shape wood.
The virtuous tame themselves."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 10), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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The Buddha

The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)

"Darkened is this world.
 Few have insight here.
 Like a bird set free from a net,
 few go to a higher world."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 13), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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The Buddha

The Buddha (6th-5th century BCE)

"The night is long for the wide awake.
The mile is long for the weary.
The round of birth and death is long
for childish people, who do not know the good way."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 5), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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The Buddha

The Buddha (6th-5th century BCE)

"Regard the person who sees your faults
as a revealer of treasures.
Associate with that skilled person
as one who is wise, who speaks reprovingly
Keeping company with such a person,
things get better, not worse."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 6), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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The Buddha

The Buddha (6th-5th century BCE)

"Those wise ones, restrained in the body,
restrained as well in speech,
those wise ones, restrained in the mind,
they indeed are perfectly restrained."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 17), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004. 

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The Buddha

The Buddha (6th-5th century BCE)

"Not because of matted hair,
not by means of ancestry, not by birth
does a person become superior.
But because one is honest and just
he is at ease, he is superior."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 26), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004. 

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The Buddha

The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)

"Look at this beautified image
composed of wounds amassed.
Full of sickness, yet desired by many,
it has neither permanence nor constancy."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 11), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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The Buddha

The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)

"A person who harms living beings is not noble.
By being gentle to all living beings
one is called 'noble.'"

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 19), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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The Buddha

The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)

"Sorrow springs from attachment.
Fear springs from attachment.
For the person freed from attachment
there is no sorrow. From where could fear emmerge?"

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 16), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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The Buddha

The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)

"Diligence is the path to the deathless.
Negligence is the path of death.
The diligent do not die.
Those who are negligent
are as the dead.

Understanding this distinctly,
those who are skilled in diligence
rejoice in diligence,
delighting in the pasture of the noble ones."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 2), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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The Buddha

The Buddha (lived c. 6th-5th century BCE)

"All tremble before violence.
All fear death.
Having done the same yourself,
you should neither harm nor kil."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 10), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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The Buddha

The Buddha (lived c. 6th-5th century BCE)

"As a bee flying from a flower,
having taken up its nectar,
does not harm its luster or fragrance,
so should the sage wander in the village."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 4), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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The Buddha

The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)

"The person who is harmonious amid the hostile,
peaceful amid the violent,
free from grasping amid the greedy,
that one I call superior."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 26), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004. 

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The Buddha

The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)

"For oneself there is not even a self."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 5), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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The Buddha

The Buddha (lived c. 6th-5th century BCE, this quote was recorded by the 3rd century BCE)

"In this world
hostilities are never
appeased by hostility.
But by the absence of hostility
are they appeased.
This is an interminable truth."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 1), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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The Buddha

The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)

"It is better indeed to conquer yourself
rather than other people."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 8), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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The Buddha

The Buddha (6th Century BCE)

"Though one might conquer in battle
a thousand times a thousand men,
the one who conquers himself alone
is supreme in battle."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 8), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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