Gautama Buddha Quotes About Kindness
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Mankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed.
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The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.
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Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else
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Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of loving kindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.
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Please, try to eat a bit less meat, a bit more veggies from today. Let it become a habit gradually until not to eat meat anymore. Then, observe the changing of the body and spirit after eating veggies, fruits and grains.
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Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.
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If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.
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Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.
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Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.
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The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.
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Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others
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When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.
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In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the difference. Her concern concentrates on one thing just like the Buddhist practice of concentration. She thinks of nothing but her child, which is similar to Buddhist compassion. That must be why, although she created no other causes to bring about it, she was reborn in the Brahma heaven.
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Whatever grounds there are for making merit productive of a future birth, all these do not equal a sixteenth part of the liberation of mind by loving-kindness. The liberation of mind by loving-kindness surpasses them and shines forth, bright and brilliant.
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Give the people - confidence. Give the people - delight. Give the people - hope. Give the people - the best.
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The ocean, king of mountains and the mighty continents Are not heavy burdens to bear when compared To the burden of not repaying the world's kindness.
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Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, her only son, so one should cultivate an unbounded mind towards all beings, and loving-kindness towards all the world. One should cultivate an unbounded mind, above and below and across, without obstruction, without enmity, without rivalry. Standing, or going, or seated, or lying down, as long as one is free from drowsiness, one should practice this mindfulness. This, they say, is the holy state here.
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In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony
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Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.
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Our problems are not solved by physical force, by hatred, by warOur problems are solved by loving kindness by gentleness, by joy
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Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.
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To eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat.
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Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.
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Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant.
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As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.
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You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.
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