Gautama Buddha Quotes About Water

• Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Water, Enlightenment

• When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.

  Gautama Buddha

  Flower, Water, Pluck

• As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Flower, Water

• When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Water, Greed

• If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Water, Meditation

• 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

• Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.

  Gautama Buddha

  Change, Wise, Fashion

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

• You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

  Gautama Buddha

  Respect, Oil, Water

• Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.

  Gautama Buddha

  Flower, Water, Doe

• But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Justice, Water

• Little by little a person becomes evil, as a water pot is filled by drops of water... Little by little a person becomes good, as a water pot is filled by drops of water.

  Gautama Buddha

  Attitude, Evil, Water

• Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, Men

• Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.

  Gautama Buddha

  Rivers, Water, Mountain

• Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel. Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.

  Gautama Buddha

  Thinking, Water, Mountain

• In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water to nourish the see we have planted; in the end, compassion is like the warmth of the sun that brings the fruit to ripening.

  Gautama Buddha

  Compassion, Water, Fruit

• Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Thinking

• As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Wisdom, Buddhist

• As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Courage, Buddhist

• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Water, Doe

• Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, Arrows

• Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling of raindrops a jar of water is filled, so the wise person becomes full of good, even though he or she collects it little by little.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Fall, Heart

• As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Evil, Water

• May we live like the lotus, at home in muddy water.

  Gautama Buddha

  Yoga, Home, Water

• Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water.

  Gautama Buddha

  Thinking, Water, Suffering

• The one who wanders independent in the world, free from opinions and viewpoints, does not grasp them and enter into disputations and arguments. As the lotus rises on its stalk unsoiled by the mud and the water, so the wise one speaks of peace and is unstained by the opinions of the world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Independent, Water

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