Buddha

vow to gain complete control over my body and mind by ridding myself of all passions, physical and mental.

The Buddhist experience relies on experiencing the truth for oneself

Everything that is born is subject to decay. Since there is no external saviour, it is up to each of you to work out your own liberation

We are preoccupied with the past, which has already happened, and we are pre-occupied about the future, which does not yet exist

I make no promises and remind you that there is no external saviour. You should rely on yourselves to do what I have done myself

It is possible to live without being encumbered by egocentric concerns, but taking off the bandages can only be done by the student himself

the mind is not caught up in memories of the past or in daydreams of the future but is totally involved in the present moment –

The end of suffering is enlightenment, Nirvana!
Enlightenment cannot be described, only experienced

Dukkha implies impermanence, imperfection and unsatisfactoriness

Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me. I see my hands, my feet, my toes and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive