Buddha
Images

Here we bring you some samples of our superbly-crafted wooden Buddha Images and also a few pictures of the very many thousands of Buddha Images which can be seen in Beautiful Myanmar - they are interspersed with lines from the Dhamapada...

‘‘Those who have high thoughts are ever striving: they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home for a higher home’’

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‘‘Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men’’

‘‘Whatever a hater may do to a hater, or an enemy to an enemy, a wrongly-directed mind will do us greater mischief’’

‘‘Let us live happily then, not hating those who hate us! Among men who hate us let us dwell free from hatred!’’

‘‘He who walks in the company of fools suffers a long way; company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful; company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinsfolk’’

‘‘From greed comes grief, from greed comes fear; he who is free from greed knows neither grief nor fear’’

‘‘He who possesses virtue and intelligence, who is just, speaks the truth, and does what is his own business, him the world will hold dear’’

‘‘There never was, there never will be, nor is there now, a man who is always blamed, or a man who is always praised’’

‘‘Beware of the anger of the tongue, and control thy tongue! Leave the sins of the tongue, and practise virtue with thy tongue!’’

‘‘Good people shine from afar, like the snowy mountains; bad people are not seen, like arrows shot by night’’

‘‘He who formerly was reckless and afterwards became sober, brightens up this world, like the moon when freed from clouds’’

‘‘He whose wickedness is very great brings himself down to that state where his enemy wishes him to be, as a creeper does with the tree which it surrounds’’

‘‘By oneself the evil is done, by oneself one suffers; by oneself evil is left undone, by oneself one is purified. Purity and impurity belong to oneself, no one can purify another’’

‘‘As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, wise people falter not amidst blame and praise’’

‘‘The fool who knows his foolishness, is wise at least so far. But a fool who thinks himself wise, he is called a fool indeed’’

‘‘Fools follow after vanity, men of evil wisdom. The wise man keeps earnestness as his best jewel’’