'I was delicately nurtured at my father's residence, lotus ponds were made just for my enjoyment'
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The Four Sights
The four sights of old age, illness, death and a holy man
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Asceticism
'When the Great Being was practising severe austerities, it was to him like a time of intertwining the sky with knots'
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Enlightenment
'But not until I attain the supreme Enlightenment will I give up this seat of meditation'
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Dhamma
'My teaching is a means of practice, not something to hold onto or worship'
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The Three Refuges
'To the Buddha for refuge I go; to the Dhamma for refuge I go; to the Sangha for refuge I go'
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Dependent arising
'All events and incidents in life are so intimately linked with the fate of others'
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Dukkha
'What I teach is suffering and the cessation of suffering'
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Anicca
'All conditioned things are impermanent - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering'
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Anatta
'All the harm fear and suffering in the world occurs to me due to grasping onto the self'
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The Four Noble Truths
'The truth of suffering is like a disease, the truth of origin is like the cause of the disease. the truth of cessation is like the cure of the disease, the truth of the path is like the medicine'
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First Noble Truth (Dukkha)
'Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering'
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Second Noble Truth (Samudaya)
'Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering' First Noble Truth (Dukkha) ''The origin of suffering: it is this craving'
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Third Noble Truth (Nirodha)
'The noble truth of the cessation (end) of suffering: it is the ending of that craving'
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Fourth Noble Truth (Magga)
'If one acts of speaks with an evil mind, from that sorrow follows him...if one acts of speaks with a pure mind, from that happiness follows him'
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Arhat
'I am the teacher supreme. I alone am a fully enlightened one'
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Bodhisattva
'However innumerable sentient beings are; I vow to save them
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pure land Buddhism
"all the beings who are born in this Buddha-field,they are all fixed on the right method of salvation,until they have won nibbana"
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The Four Sights
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The four sights of old age, illness, death and a holy man
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