Filed under: Sutras/Suttas
Solitude is happiness for one who is content,
who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees.
Non-affliction is happiness in the world
– harmlessness towards all living beings.
Filed under: Buddhist Quotes
See all living beings as your father or mother, and love them as if you were their child.
Filed under: Buddhist Quotes
Generate compassion for lowly beings, and especially avoid despising or humiliating them.
Filed under: Sutras/Suttas
A disciple of the Buddha should have a mind of compassion and cultivate the practice of liberating sentient beings. He must reflect thus: throughout the eons of time, all male sentient beings have been my father, all female sentient beings my mother. I was born of them, now if I slaughter them, I would be slaughtering my parents as well as eating flesh that was once my own. This is so because all elemental earth, water, fire and air – the four constituents of all life – have previously been part of my body, part of my substance.
