Inspiring Mahayana New Year Quotes To Usher In A Renewed Journey
Buddha’s teachings remain timeless and continue to captivate many. In this modern era, the wisdom imparted by Buddha resonates profoundly.
Explore the profound insights of Buddha through his inspiring quotes, urging us to conquer ourselves rather than countless battles.
These timeless messages offer a unique perspective on life, fostering personal growth and success. Whether you’re a devoted follower of Buddha or simply curious about his wisdom, delve into our collection of Buddha Quotes for the New Year.
Let the profound words of Buddha inspire a new dimension of thinking in your life. Share these impactful quotes with friends during the New Year, spreading motivation and enlightenment.
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The beauty of Buddha’s teachings lies in their ability to encourage personal improvement without dismissing one’s existing practices and beliefs. Embrace these quotes to enhance every aspect of your life.
Mahayana New Year Quotes
1. All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. Happy New Year!!
2. Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. Happy New Year!
3. Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue in this New Year.
4. Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. Happy New Year!!
5. Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
6. An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
7. 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.
8. The Mind is everything. What you think you become.
9. Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
10. Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.
11. Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. Happy New Year!!
12. Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
13. Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
14. Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.
15. The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become.
16. There is no fire like lust and no crime like hatred. There is no ill like the aggregates of existence and no peace higher than the peace of Nirvana.
17. Full of joy, full of faith in the Teaching of the Buddha, the monk attains the Peaceful State, the bliss of cessation of conditioned things.
18. To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
19. “Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.”
20. “A disciplined mind brings happiness.”
21. “Give, even if you only have a little.”
22. “Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity. Conquer dishonesty with truth.”
23. “Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people.”
24. “Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.”
25. “I will not look at another’s bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.”
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26. “Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one’s own acts, done and undone.”
27. “Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.”
28. “May all beings have happy minds.”
29. “Delight in heedfulness! Guard well your thoughts!”
30. “Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure.”
31. “Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course.”
32. “In whom there is no sympathy for living beings: know him as an outcast.”
33. “Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.”
34. “Live with no sense of ‘mine,’ not forming attachment to experiences.”
35. “Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.”
36. “One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.”
37. “If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current — how can he help others across?”
38. “All conditioned things are impermanent—when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.”
39. It is better to travel well than to arrive. Happy New Year!
40. Be truthful; do not yield to anger. Give freely, even if you have but little. The gods will bless you. Happy New Year!
41. 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. Happy New Year!
42. Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Happy New Year!
43. We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. Happy New Year!
44. Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
45. It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse. Happy New Year!
46. However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? Happy New Year!
47. Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Happy New Year!
48. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. Happy New Year!
49. The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. Happy New Year!
50. The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. Happy New Year!
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Buddhist New Year Messages
51. When you attain victory over yourself, not even the gods can turn it into defeat. Happy New Year!
52. All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.
53. Never envy others or take what you have for granted. Those who envy others will never find peace of mind. Happy New Year
54. The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become. Happy New Year!
55. Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace. Happy New Year!
56. There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. Happy New Year!
57. I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
58. Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.
59. If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. Happy New Year!
60. The best thanks to conveying peace to the earth are to work out a way to create our terribly own life peacefully. Happy New Year!
61. Those who have destroyed the roots of jealousy have peace of mind always. Happy New Year!
62. Peace is not the absence of intensity; Peace is that the presence of devotion.
63. Peace is the highest bliss. Happy New Year!!
64. A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but is he peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
65. Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
66. Health does not generally originate from Medicine. More often it originates from Peace feelings of mind, peace inside the heart, Peace of the spirit. It originates from smile and love.
67. Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine. Happy New Year!!
68. We can never acquire peace in the external world until we make peace with ourselves.
69. Those who are free of angry considerations without a doubt discover peace.
70. There is no real way to Peace, Peace itself is the way.
71. If you can’t discover peace inside yourself you’ll never discover it anywhere else.
72. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
73. To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others. Happy New Year.
74. Never envy others or take what you have for granted. Those who envy others will never find peace of mind.
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75. Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.
Buddhist Happy New Year Quotes
76. “Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.”
77. “The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.”
78. “To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation — this is the greatest blessing.”
79. “All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.”
80. “They blame those who remain silent, they blame those who speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed.”
81. “If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow.”
82. “As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.”
83. “The one in whom no longer exist the craving and thirst that perpetuate becoming; how could you track that Awakened one, trackless, and of limitless range.”
84. “The root of suffering is attachment.”
85. “Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is Awakened.”
86. “As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.”
87. “Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another.”
88. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. Happy New Year!
89. What we think, we become. Happy New Year!
90. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Happy New Year!
91. Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. Happy New Year!
92. The tongue like a sharp knife … Kills without drawing blood. Happy New Year!
93. In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. Happy New Year!
94. Resolutely train yourself to attain peace. Happy New Year!
95. If you can’t discover peace inside yourself you’ll never discover it anywhere else. Happy New Year!
96. Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. Happy New Year!
97. To keep the body in good health is a duty … otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. Happy New Year!
98. He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye. Happy New Year!
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99. Understanding is the heartwood of well-spoken words. Happy New Year!
100. “Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.”
