The Sutras were a way that the truths of the enlightened could be passed on to their followers. For this reason, as they are born from oral culture, they are formulated as short and concrete sentences that transmit ideas and concepts to reflect on through inner work.
Here you will know some of the 53 Sutras of Buddhism that will help you to be in harmony. In all of them, the true meaning can only be discovered by you through silence, meditation and the observation of your soul.
1. He watches; has clarity
The fool sleeps as if he were already dead, but the master is awake and lives forever. He watches. He has clarity. (Buddha).
Everything is in our sight or within our heart; all we need is to learn to observe. By observing, clarity arises because you become more delicate, more concentrated, more focused. Be wise and watch, don’t talk, just watch and learn.
2. Only love dispels hate
In this world hate has never dissipated hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible (Budha).
Light dispels darkness, and darkness is hate. How to gain the light? Through meditation. Leave your mind blank. detach yourself from the results that generate hate. Silence wins, so the light will enter you and hate will be indifferent to you.
We are very used to hating in our lives, and that only reflects our dissatisfaction for having signed a contract that after the years we recognize as harmful: the contract of the Ego, of conditioning, of submission to the rules of others. Let’s empty our minds, let’s look for the origin
of our hatred, and we will find peace. The great surprise will be discovering that we do not hate others but ourselves.
3. How can you fight?
You too will pass to a better life. How can you fight? (Buddha).
Life is too short to waste it uselessly fighting. Better spend your time and energy on meditating to gain happiness. Become light by entering the silence of the mind. In death we all level out; why fight then? What do we gain by wasting our energies in this way?
4. Beyond trials
A mind beyond judgments observes and understands (Budha).
Do not go into considerations of what is right and what is wrong, because if you analyze it you will be divided. you will become a hypocrite. Choose an attitude of mindful attention, simply observe both options but do not choose. Just watch.
5. In an empty forest
Even being in an empty forest he finds enjoyment because he does not want anything (Budha).
You must pursue freedom, that state of consciousness free from all desire, not chained to any desire, not prey to any greed. You must reach the state of no-mind, that positive, free, spacious, unlimited emptiness. If you get to it, you will enjoy. Emptying your mind is equivalent to emptying a
room: the more furniture you take out, the more spacious it will seem.
6. Hollow words
Better than a thousand hollow words is a word that brings peace (Budha).
You must fight against your mind; it is more interested in knowledge than in wisdom. Love and everything beautiful does not need information, it needs observation and awareness.
7. You are the origin
The evil is yours, the sorrow is yours. But virtue and purity are also yours. You are the origin of all purity and all impurity (Budha).
If you are a flower to yourself, your fragrance will have to be released; it will come to others. If you are a thorn to yourself, how can you be a flower to others?
8. Freedom
Get rid of attachments (Budha).
If you don’t cling to anything, how can you be unhappy? Do not cling to things or people because they change, and many times they do so in different directions than you expected. Give love for love itself, for what benefits you, not for the reward that delivery could bring. Do not become attached to anything, nor do you become a wanderer; just live your own life. Be wise in your living.
9. It’s not in heaven
The way is not in the sky. The path is in the heart (Budha).
Don’t look outside yourself. Do not follow those who claim to be the way. Follow your own consciousness, find your own Self, and be yourself. Everything goes and everything comes, everything arrives and everything passes. Life is an ever changing flux; consciousness is the only immovable, eternal thing. Seek your own consciousness and you will gain freedom. Everything is within you.
10. Give up your sorrows
O slave of desire, float with the current. Little spider, stick to your web. Or if not, abandon your sorrows on the way (Budha).
You can abandon everything, riches, family, love, but you cannot abandon your sorrows, your sorrows. You already carry them within you, they are part of you. In the end, you are your sorrows. Have you ever wondered what for? Do you like to suffer? Did you come here to suffer or to be happy? Just as you cling to your sorrows, why don’t you cling to your happiness?