Friedrich Muller Quotes (193 Quotes)

After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old age and death, pride and deceit.

Let a man leave anger, let him forsake pride, let him overcome all bondage No sufferings befall the man who is not attached to name and form, and who calls nothing his own.

The fields are damaged by weeds, mankind is damaged by passion therefore a gift bestowed on the passionless brings great reward.

If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.

The earth is always represented as an emblem of patience the bolt of Indra, if taken in its technical sense, as the bolt of a gate, might likewise suggest the idea of firmness while the lake is a constant representative of serenity and purity.

Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.

The fool who knows his foolishness, is wise at least so far.

Not a moment should escape, for they who allow the right moment to pass, suffer pain when they are in hell.

He who is free from pleasure knows neither grief nor fear.

Trust is the best of relationships, Nirvna the highest happiness.

Men, driven by fear, go to many a refuge, to mountains and forests, to groves and sacred trees.

The follower of the law, even if he can recite only a small portion (of the law), but, having forsaken passion and hatred and foolishness, possesses true knowledge and serenity of mind.

He who has reached the consummation, who does not tremble, who is without thirst and without sin, he has broken all the thorns of life this will be his last body.

The wise man advances like a racer, leaving behind the hack.

So long as the love of man towards women, even the smallest, is not destroyed, so long is his mind in bondage, as the calf that drinks milk is to its mother.

All created things perish, he who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain this is the way to purity.

A fool does not know when he commits his evil deeds but the wicked man burns by his own deeds, as if burnt by fire.

Many men whose shoulders are covered with the yellow gown are ill-conditioned and unrestrained such evil-doers by their evil deeds go to hell.

Those who love nothing and hate nothing, have no fetters.

Death subdues a man who is gathering flowers, and whose mind is distracted, before he is satiated in his pleasures.

He who says what is not, goes to hell he also who, having done a thing, says I have not done it. After death both are equal, they are men with evil deeds in the next world.

Let no man ever look for what is pleasant, or what is unpleasant.

He who walks in the company of fools suffers a long way company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinsfolk.

He in whom there is truth, virtue, love, restraint, moderation, he who is free from impurity and is wise, he is called an elder.

Those white bones, like gourds thrown away in the autumn, what pleasure is there in looking at them.

They depart with their thoughts well-collected, they are not happy in their abode like swans who have left their lake, they leave their house and home.

We shall be like the bright gods, feeding on happiness

Bad conduct is the taint of woman, greediness the taint of a benefactor tainted are all evil ways in this world and in the next.

Sons are no help, nor a father, nor relations there is no help from kinsfolk for one whom death has seized.

As life is dear to oneself, it is dear also to other living beings by comparing oneself with others, good people bestow pity on all beings.

As a fish taken from his watery home and thrown on dry ground, our thought trembles all over in order to escape the dominion of the tempter.

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool.

That fetter wise people call strong which drags down, yields, but is difficult to undo after having cut this at last, people leave the world, free from cares, and leaving desires and pleasures behind.

Difficult is the hearing of the True Law.

If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.

If, whether for his own sake, or for the sake of others, a man wishes neither for a son, nor for wealth, nor for lordship.

Without knowledge there is no meditation, without meditation there is no knowledge he who has knowledge and meditation is near unto Nirvna.

A creature's pleasures are extravagant and luxurious sunk in lust and looking for pleasure, men undergo (again and again) birth and decay.

Follow not after vanity, nor after the enjoyment of love and lust

Here I shall dwell in the rain, here in winter and summer, thus the fool meditates, and does not think of his death.

As rain does not break through a well-thatched house, passion will not break through a well-reflecting mind.

The disciple of the truly enlightened Buddha shines forth by his knowledge among those who are like rubbish, among the people that walk in darkness.

But those who, when the law has been well preached to them, follow the law, will pass across the dominion of death, however difficult to overcome.

Not to blame, not to strike, to live restrained under the law, to be moderate in eating, to sleep and sit alone, and to dwell on the highest thoughts,this is the teaching of the Awakened.

Before long, alas this body will lie on the earth, despised, without understanding, like a useless log.

Hunger is the worst of diseases, the body the greatest of pains if one knows this truly, that is Nirvna, the highest happiness.

Those who are slaves to passions, run down with the stream (of desires), as a spider runs down the web which he has made himself when they have cut this, at last, wise people leave the world free from cares, leaving all affection behind.

He who, by causing pain to others, wishes to obtain pleasure for himself, he, entangled in the bonds of hatred, will never be free from hatred.

If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found.