Favourite Dhamma Quote

[cooran]

MN131 Bhaddekaratta Sutta, 'A Single Excellent Night'(Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, translated by the Ven. Bhikkhus Naa.namoli and Bodhi):

"Let not a person revive the past
Or on the future build his hopes;
For the past has been left behind
And the future has not been reached.

Instead with insight let him see
Each presently arisen state;
Let him know that and be sure of it,
Invincibly, unshakeably.
Today the effort must be made;
Tomorrow Death may come, who knows?

No bargain with Mortality
Can keep him and his hordes away,
But one who dwells thus ardently,
Relentlessly, by day, by night -
It is he, the Peaceful Sage has said,
Who has had a single excellent night."

metta
Chris

[bodom]

There are these roots of trees, these empty huts. MEDITATE, Ananda, DO NOT DELAY, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you."


The Buddha - MN 152-[18]

[Ontheway]

This topic is quite beneficial. One can share his/her favourite quotes and also learn from each others' quotes.

For myself, to list a few:

Maṅgalasutta

Asevanā ca bālānaṁ,
paṇḍitānañca sevanā;
Pūjā ca pūjaneyyānaṁ,
etaṁ maṅgalamuttamaṁ.

Not to associate with the foolish, but to associate with the wise, and to honor those worthy of honor—this is the highest blessing.

Sattisutta

Sattiyā viya omaṭṭho,
ḍayhamānova matthake;
Sakkāyadiṭṭhippahānāya,
sato bhikkhu paribbaje”ti.

As if smitten by a sword,
As if his head were on fire,
A bhikkhu should wander mindfully
To abandon identity view.

Mahāgosiṅgasutta

......“Idhāvuso sāriputta, dve bhikkhū Abhidhammakathaṁ kathenti, te aññamaññaṁ pañhaṁ pucchanti, aññamaññassa pañhaṁ puṭṭhā vissajjenti, no ca saṁsādenti, dhammī ca nesaṁ kathā pavattinī hoti. Evarūpena kho, āvuso sāriputta, bhikkhunā gosiṅgasālavanaṁ sobheyyā”ti.....

“Here, friend Sāriputta, two bhikkhus engage in a talk on the higher Dhamma and they question each other, and each being questioned by the other answers without foundering, and their talk rolls on in accordance with the Dhamma. That kind of bhikkhu could illuminate this Gosinga Sāla-tree Wood.”

......“Sādhu sādhu, sāriputta, yathā taṁ moggallānova sammā byākaramāno byākareyya. Moggallāno hi, sāriputta, Dhammakathiko”ti.

“Good, good, Sāriputta. Moggallāna, speaking rightly, should speak just as he did. For Moggallāna is one who talks on the Dhamma.”

Vajirāsutta

“Kiṁ nu sattoti paccesi,
māra diṭṭhigataṁ nu te;
Suddhasaṅkhārapuñjoyaṁ,
nayidha sattupalabbhati.

Yathā hi aṅgasambhārā,
hoti saddo ratho iti;
Evaṁ khandhesu santesu,
hoti sattoti sammuti.

Dukkhameva hi sambhoti,
dukkhaṁ tiṭṭhati veti ca;
Nāññatra dukkhā sambhoti,
nāññaṁ dukkhā nirujjhatī”ti.

Why now do you assume ‘a being’?
Mara, is that your speculative view?
This is a heap of sheer formations:
Here no being is found.

“Just as, with an assemblage of parts,
The word ‘chariot’ is used,
So, when the aggregates exist,
There is the convention ‘a being.’

“It’s only suffering that comes to be,
Suffering that stands and falls away.
Nothing but suffering comes to be,
Nothing but suffering ceases.

Subhasutta

Vibhajjavādo kho ahamettha, māṇava; nāhamettha ekaṁsavādo.

Here student, I am one who speaks after making an analysis; I do not speak one-sidedly.

Mahāsamayasutta

Ye keci buddhaṁ saraṇaṁ gatāse,
Na te gamissanti apāyabhūmiṁ;
Pahāya mānusaṁ dehaṁ,
Devakāyaṁ paripūressantī”ti.

Whoever has gone to the Buddha for refuge
will not go to the lower worlds.
After giving up the human body
they will fill up the ranks of the gods.

[DNS]

This topic is quite beneficial. One can share his/her favourite quotes and also learn from each others' quotes.
For myself, to list a few:

Do you have the English translations of those? From the terms of service:

This is an English language forum, therefore posts must be in English or Pāli (i.e. the language of the Tipitaka and the ancient commentaries). As the majority of members are not fluent in Pāli, please consider the value of providing English translations for Pāli text where practicable.

[JamesTheGiant]

Dhammapada Verse 50:
One should not consider the faults of others, nor their doing or not doing good or bad deeds.
One should consider only whether one has done or not done good or bad deeds.

[robertk]

my 6 year old teaching her 2 year old sister some favorite phrases.

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[Ontheway]

Very wholesome indeed, Robertk.


Further sharing.

I just found out a Sutta that I never noticed before, when reading Anguttara Nikaya in Pāli:

Hatthisāriputtasuttaṃ

It is about a Bhikkhu named Citta Hatthisāriputta who wanted to interrupt senior Theras when they engaged in "Abhidhammakathaṃ kathenti" discussion session, and one of them which happened to be Arahant Mahākoṭṭhiko Thero.

Later Arahant Mahākoṭṭhiko rebuked him and cross-questioning the companions who supported Citta Hatthisāriputta to interrupt Theras' discussion, and even predicted that Citta the Bhikkhu will leave the monkhood.

Take a person who is the sweetest of the sweet, the most even-tempered of the even-tempered, the calmest of the calm, so long as they live relying on the Teacher or a spiritual companion in a teacher’s role. But when they’re separated from the Teacher or a spiritual companion in a teacher’s role, they mix closely with monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen; with rulers and their ministers, and with teachers of other paths and their followers. As they mix closely, they become intimate and loose, spending time chatting, and so lust infects their mind. They resign the training and return to a lesser life.

Later Citta the Bhikkhu really did so. But the Buddha again predicts that Citta will soon straighten himself again and return to monkhood. Finally he became one of the Arahants too.

[DNS]

my 6 year old teaching her 2 year old sister some favorite phrases.
VID-20220124-WA0006 (1) (1) (1).mp4

Too cute!

Sadhu!

[Sam Vara]

my 6 year old teaching her 2 year old sister some favorite phrases.
VID-20220124-WA0006 (1) (1) (1).mp4

Brilliant!

Get that clip onto Sri Lankan TV, claim to be a Mormon who doesn't understand a word they are on about, and watch them become the new poster-girls for reincarnation!

[BVira]

"[...]the Tathagata dwells [...] liberated [...] from feeling
[...]the Tathagata dwells [...] liberated [...] from death"
- AN 10:81

[befriend]

Fashion your life like a garland of beautiful deeds. Happiness is the non doing of evil happiness is virtue into old age

[Nicholas Weeks]

333. Good is virtue until life’s end, good is faith that is steadfast, good is the acquisition of wisdom, and good is the avoidance of evil.

Dhammapada