[Gabriel Kalden]

15 Sayings of the Buddha

1)
Health is the greatest gift,
Contentment is the greatest wealth,
Faithfulness is the greatest relationship,
Enlightenment is the greatest happiness.

2)
Your work is to discover your work
and then with all your heart,
Give yourself to it.

3)
The secret of health for both mind and body
Is not to mourn for the past,
Not to worry about the future,
Or not to anticipate troubles,
But to live in the present moment
Wisely and earnestly.

4)
Love the world,
As a mother loves her only child.

5)
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines,
But it is to the one who endures
That the final victory comes.

6)
There has to be evil
So that good can prove
Its purity above it.

7)
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.
Doubt separates people.
It is a poison that disintegrates friendships
And breaks up pleasant relations.
It is a thorn that irritates and hurts;
it is a sword that kills.

8)
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unchanging law.

9)
You will not be punished for your anger,
You will be punished by your anger.

10)
'He insulted me,
he cheated me,
he beat me,
he robbed me'
-- those who are free of resentful thoughts
Surely find peace.

11)
Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

12)
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them,
Each supplying what the other lacks
And trying to benefit the other,
Always using friendly and sincere words.

13)
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections
And rebukes evil is to be respected as if
He reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

14)
The Way is not in the sky.
The Way is in the heart.


15)
Believe nothing,
No matter where you read it,
Or who said it,
No matter if I have said it,
Unless it agrees with reason
And your own common sense.