The Buddha's Quotes:

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.
~Buddha

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.
~Buddha

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

~Buddha

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
~Buddha

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
~Buddha

He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.
~Buddha

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
~Buddha

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.
~Buddha

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
~Buddha

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
~Buddha

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
~Buddha

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
~Buddha

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
~Buddha

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
~Buddha

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
~Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
~Buddha

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
~Buddha

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
~Buddha

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
~Buddha

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
~Buddha

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
~Buddha

A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.
~Buddha

"Vấn đề hiểu Pháp của đạo Phật không phải dễ vì tính cách sâu xa cuả nguyên lý : Sắc tức thị không, không tức thị sắc. Và thuyết "nhị nguyên": tương đối: không có cái này thì không có cái kia. Tương đối ta thấy mọi sự do mắt nhìn thấy chuyển vào thức giác và não đặt tên cho cái nhìn thấy....Nhưng tuyệt đối là nó không là nó, cũng như ta không phài là "ta" tên là "ABC". Tuyết đối ta không là gì cả, vì không có cha mẹ thì không có ta. Không có tinh trùng và trứng thì không có ta....cho tới không thể có cái gì để nói sinh ra ta, cũng như sinh ra vũ trụ. Vì thế tất cả đều là vô thường, như hình thức domino...khi bịnh hoạn tàn phá cơ thể, các tế bào tan rữa, ta trở thành "không"....Hiểu về sự tương đội , cái này sinh cái kia; và tuyệt đối ̣, cái không, bạn sẽ giải quyết nhiều vấn đề: không còn tham, níu kéo cái vô thường, không còn sân, và phá ngu mê. Tính từ bi phát triển, vì hiêu rằng tất ca mọi sự mọi vật trên vũ trụ này đều là một. 

 Nói có Chúa sáng tạo, thì không có bằng chứng thật, nếu Chúa là một "Đấng nào đó" thì Đấng này cũng phải cḥiu phục tùng trước luật tự nhiên của vô thường vô ngã và khổ đau. Tất cả là do tâm mà ra. Có nhiều tâm cho là do Chúa thì ćo Chúa. Có nhiêu tâm cho là tự tại, tất cả là do Tâm mà ra....thì tâm nghĩ thế nào nó ra thế ấy."

Kim Morris

Buddha said: "Anupubbena medhavi thoka thokam khane khane, Kammaro rajatass' eva niddhame malam attano." 

(By degrees, little by little, from moment to moment, a wise man remove his own impurities, as a smith removes the dross of silver)

THE CORE DUALITY

Reality is Moments of Mentality & Materiality!

Nāma-Rūpa = Name-and-Form = Naming-and-Forming!

The mind is that, which knows the object! The object is that, which is known!
These two processes always arise, and cease together simultaneously...
Neither inside, within, nor apart from, outside these two is any observer agent,"person", "I", "Me", or other assumed entity as a hidden variable, ever involved!

The mind is immaterial, formless and invisible. The object may be designated or named 'material', 'physical', 'formed' and even 'visible' or 'external' only,and exactly to the extent, and in so far, as it is experienceable by the mind!

No same, constant, lasting 'real', 'actual' or 'substantial substance' has ever existed 'out there' independently or separable from the mind, that right then momentarily perceived, and thereby apprehended, displayed, manifested, and designated it! This core dual pair of mentality (nāma), and materiality (rūpa),is thus one united, yet dual continuum, like the two ends of the same stick!
The mind is that, which knows the object! The object is that, which is known!

These two processes always arise, and cease together simultaneously...Neither inside, within, nor apart from, outside these two is any observer agent, "person", "I", "Me", or other assumed entity as a hidden variable, ever involved!

The mind is immaterial, formless and invisible. The object may be designated or named 'material', 'physical', 'formed' and even 'visible' or 'external' only,and exactly to the extent, and in so far, as it is experienceable by the mind!

No same, constant, lasting 'real', 'actual' or 'substantial substance' has ever existed 'out here' independently or separable from the mind, that right then momentarily perceived, and thereby apprehended, displayed, manifested, and designated it! This core dual pair of mentality (nāma), and materiality (rūpa), is thus one united, yet dual continuum, like the two ends of the same stick!

The 2 sides of the very same coin. Two different aspects of the same event..They do never emerge, nor do they ever exist, nor can they ever be observed separately, in and of themselves, but they can only arise in mutual dependence, like two thin creepers can only arise & stand up if intertwined with each other. Mentality and materiality thus arise and cease simultaneously in each moment!

They are thus the most basic, fundamental and primary pair on the bottom of the dynamic ever-changing process of any being in any existence of any reality...

What is called 'matter' is delimited, defined, characterized, nceptualized,compartmentalized, and even named by mind! Therefore can matternever be separated from mind, like if one tries to break the dual-ended stick in order to separate the ends, then one always gets two sticks, still each with 2 ends!
Therefore one unambiguously always ends up with observing a pair-wise new event of mentality and materiality! The basic founding, yet often unnoticed, unspoken, and maybe even sometimes tenaciously denied assumption underlying all Western science that: The naked, passive, objective observation is possible!

"Matter can be observed and analyzed objectively, fully independently of mind!"is therefore an utterly false, futile and even somewhat childish assumption...No observation can ever be independent of mind! Why not? What is observing IS the mind! The naive physicist who postulates: 'Independently of Mind, "I!" will observe and describe matter!' extending out of his range of understanding,thus speaks folly false, and is thereby later ultimately enforced to introduce 'mysti-phystical' entities as 'hidden variables' into his explanations, in order to reach completeness, coherence, and internal consistency...

He seems to be in complete oblivion of the dry fact, that even before one even thinks of, even speaks of, or experiments with any kind 'matter' whatsoever,mind has indeed been long and hard at work! The basic hidden, yet always present, factor in any kind of objective observation, is naturally and inherently mind itself!

However, this mind factor is not so hidden, that it cannot be observed & analyzed and that even without any laboratory, or even a single 'instrument' apart from a pillow to sit on! Meditation - the contemplative method - is thus the real deal...
Everyone, without even a single exception, who sits down with closed eyes, will instantly be overwhelmed by a veritable storm of mentally created distractions:
This is the Mind! This is undeniably real mental activity knocking at your door!

When this dynamic self-sustaining duality of mentality-materiality, this self-propagating perpetuum mobile, cease to evolve, consciousness thereby ceases to establish itself on any object! This - only this, in and of itself - is the very final End of all Suffering... Thus escaping the duality mirror box of mind and matter..

The Core Duality (Nâma-Rûpa)

bhikkhu samahita