Sakyamuni Buddha’s famous sayings

1. Only by never forgetting your original intention can you achieve success.

2. All appearances are false. If you see that all forms are non-identical, you will see the Tathagata.

3. All dharmas are empty, neither born nor destroyed, neither dirty nor pure, neither increasing nor decreasing.

4. You must always forgive all living beings. No matter how bad they are, or even if they have hurt you, you must let go in order to gain true happiness.

5. Arrogant people can be taught, but people with low self-esteem cannot be saved. Only by knowing yourself, surrendering yourself, and changing yourself can you change others.

6. The world is really a miserable place. A person’s life is limited, but most people don’t understand the principle of impermanence and change. They work hard to survive all day long. This is really the greatest tragedy. ! Seeing other people's old age, sickness and death is scary, but they don't know how short their own life is and are frightened. Oh! This is the big trouble in life!

7. You don’t have to look back to see who is cursing you? If a mad dog bites you, do you have to lie down and bite it back?

8. No matter who you meet, he is the person who should appear in your life. It is no accident. He will definitely teach you something.

9. No matter now or in the past, what I teach you is: suffering and the cessation of suffering.

10. Hate cannot stop hating, only love can stop it.

11. Color is not different from emptiness, and emptiness is not different from color. Color is emptiness, and emptiness is color.

12. How strange! How strange! All sentient beings have the wisdom and virtue of the Tathagata, but they cannot achieve it through delusional thinking and persistence.

13. Don’t overvalue what you get, and don’t envy others. People who envy others will not have a peaceful mood.

14. To be tolerant towards others means to accept and understand others psychologically. I really hope that people in the world can be more tolerant, then our lives will be more warm and happy! Fight hatred with hate, and hatred will always exist; fight hatred with love, and hatred will disappear naturally.

15. If you don’t trouble yourself, others will never trouble you. Because you can’t let go of your own heart.

16. If you have already been born, if you are born now, if you are born in the future.

17. Face hatred with hatred, and hatred will always exist; face hatred with love, and hatred will disappear naturally.

18. Because there is no gain, Bodhisattva, because of Prajnaparamita, the heart has no worries, because there are no worries, there is no fear, and it is far away from upside down dreams, and it is the ultimate Nirvana.

19. Hate can never stop hate, only love can stop hate.

20. It only takes one sentence to destroy a person, but it takes a thousand words to cultivate a person. Please be more lenient with your words.

21. If you want to know the cause of the past life, who is the recipient of this life; if you want to know the result of the future life, who is the author of this life.

22. Seeing that all five aggregates are empty, you can survive all hardships.

23. No matter what happens, that is the only thing that will happen.

24. Don’t waste your life on something you will definitely regret.

25. Protect your verbal karma well and don’t blame others for their mistakes; protect your body karma well and don’t lose discipline; protect your mental karma well and keep it pure and untainted.

26. Use truth as a light and truth as a pillar. Don’t use anything else as a pillar.

27. Never waste a minute of your time thinking about anyone you don’t like.