Gautama Buddha Quotes About Sleep

• If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from tree to tree, Never finding the fruit - From life to life, Never finding peace. If you are filled with desire Your sorrows swell Like the grass after the rain. But if you subdue desire Your sorrows shall fall from you Like drops of water from a lotus flower.

  Gautama Buddha

  Rain, Flower, Fall

• Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sleep, Meditation, Forever

• The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Sleep

• Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Horse, Sleep

• Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

  Gautama Buddha

  Death, Buddhist, Flower

• When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.

  Gautama Buddha

  Peace, Sleep, Snakes

• If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out.

  Gautama Buddha

  Peace, Sleep, Wish

• Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith

  Gautama Buddha

  Religious, Sleep, Nurse

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