This year, Buddha Purnima is celebrated today, May 23, 2024. (Image: Shutterstock)
In India, Buddha Purnima is celebrated by visiting Buddhist viharas and attending special prayers. Let's take a look at the 10 most inspiring quotes of Lord Buddha.
Buddha Purnima is an important Buddhist festival that commemorates the birth of Prince Siddhartha Gautama, who later became Gautama Buddha and founded Buddhism. In India, Buddha Purnima is celebrated on the full moon day of the Vaisakha month in the Hindu calendar. This year, Buddha Purnima falls on May 23, 2024. However, countries like China, Japan, Bhutan and Thailand follow their own lunar-solar calendars, so the date of Buddha Purnima varies.
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In India, Buddha Purnima is celebrated by visiting Buddhist viharas and attending special prayers. Devotees also prepare kheer, to remember the tradition of Sujata, a farmer's wife who had fed Gautama Buddha a bowl of kheer and ended his six years of asceticism. Buddha Purnima is mainly celebrated in Maharashtra, Sikkim, Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh, Bodh Gaya of Bihar, Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh, parts of North Bengal like Kalimpong, Darjeeling and Kurseong.
10 quotes from Lord Buddha
- “Let no one criticize others; that no one sees the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see his own actions, done and undone.”
- “Hate is never appeased by hate in this world. Only without hate does hate appease. This is an eternal law.”
- “If a person does good, let him do it again and again. May he find pleasure in it, for blessed is the accumulation of good.”
- “Drop by drop the pitcher fills with water. Likewise, the wise man, collecting it little by little, is filled with good.”
- “Conquer anger with non-anger. Beat evil with good. Overcome meanness with generosity. Overcome dishonesty with truth.”
- “Know for the rivers in clefts and crevices: those in the small canals run noisily, the large ones run silently. What is not full makes noise. “What is full is silent.”
- “One must train oneself in three acts of merit (generosity, a balanced life, and developing a loving mind) that produce lasting happiness.”
- “Teach everyone this triple truth: a generous heart, a kind word, and a life of service and compassion are the things that renew humanity.”
- “Whatever living beings there are: weak or strong, long, robust or medium-sized, short, small, large, those that are seen or those that are not seen, those that live far or near, those that have been born and those who are yet to be born. born, may all beings have happy minds.”
- “Just as the solid rock is not shaken by the storm, so the wise are not affected by praise or censure.”
