Gautama Buddha Quotes About Awareness
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To have everything is to possess nothing.
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I am a finger pointing to the moon. Don't look at me; look at the moon.
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If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it.
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Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.
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Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence... Enter into rapture and pleasure born of silence derived of concentration and awareness that is free from thought and fabrication.
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Because not even the least Dharma is there found or got at. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlightenment'. Self-identical is that Dharma and nothing is therein at variance. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlighten'
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How can one ever know anything if they are too busy thinking?
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Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.
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Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.
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Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
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Be the witness of your thoughts.
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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
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Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive. Wonder of wonders.
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Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.
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