Gautama Buddha Quotes on Suffering and Inspired Haiku

 

Sufferings or Dukha: Gautama Buddha Quotes

    • The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.
    • Understand the suffering of worldly existence! Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness! Practice the path of meditation and compassion! Awaken from suffering within Great Peace!
    • Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
    • Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.
    • Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the cartwheel follows the foot of the draft animal. If with a pure mind, you speak or act, then happiness follows you as a shadow that never departs.

INSPIRED HAIKU

 Samsara deludes -

To keep up rebirth cycle,

Sufferings – Dukkha

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Influx of vices

As mental cankers, defiles -

Create tainted karma

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Be self-reflective

Be watchful of 'Asavas' -

And Karmic backlash

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Free mind of vices

No more of sensual pleasures

To annul Karma

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Rid Karmic cankers

Of sensual pleasures,

Ennui, ignorance

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End of sensual grip

Freedom from mental vices

Make you Arahant

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Be self-reflective

Purify mind, calm senses

To annul rebirth

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