Spiritual Path

Buddhism is a tradition that focuses on personal spiritual development.

Buddhists strive for a deep insight into the true nature of life.

Buddhism is a spiritual tradition that focuses on personal spiritual development and the attainment of a deep insight into the true nature of life.

Buddhism teaches that all life is interconnected, so compassion is natural and important.

The Sayings Of Lord Buddha
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Just as might a mother with her life, protect the son that was her only child,
So let him then for every living thing, maintain unbounded consciousness in being;
And let him too, with love for all the world, maintain unbounded consciousness in being;
Above, below, all around, and in between, untroubled with no enemy or foe.
The Buddha (Metta Sutta from Sutta Nipata)

Health is the highest gain,
Contentment is the greatest wealth,
The trusted are the best kinsmen,
Nibbana is the highest bliss.
The Buddha

Not to do any evil, to cultivate the good, to purify the mind;
This is the teaching of the Buddhas.
The Buddha

Self-conquest is, indeed, far greater than the conquest of all other folk;
Neither a god, nor heavenly beings, nor Mara, nor Brahma,
Can win back the victory of such a person who is self-subdued and ever lives in restraint.
The Buddha

One should utter the truth.
One should not be angry.
One should give even from a scanty store to him who asks.
Along these three paths one may go to the presence of the gods.
The Buddha

Mind is the forerunner of all evil states.
Mind is chief; mind-made are they.
If one speaks or acts with wicked mind,
Because of that, suffering follows one,
Even as the wheel follows the hoof of the draught-ox.
The Buddha (Dhpd. 1)

Conquer anger by love,
Evil by good;
Conquer the miser with liberality,
And the liar with truth.
The Buddha (Dhpd. 223)

Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world:
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream;
A flash of lightening in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.
The Buddha

All conditioned things are of a nature to decay -- strive on untiringly.
The Buddha's final words (DN 16)

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