Santideva

Santideva (7th century) was an Indian Buddhist philosopher. He was follower of Nagarjun's Madhyamika school of Mahayan Buddhism. He was a famous teacher at Nalanda Buddhist university and monastary of Bihar in India.

Wisdom & Quotes

• The whole earth cannot satisfy the lust of the flesh; who can do its will ? To him who longs for the impossible come guilt and bafflement of desire ; but he who is utterly without desire has a happiness that ages not.
• Eager to escape sorrow, men rush into sorrow ; from desire of happiness they blindly slay their own happiness, enemies to themselves.
• I will cease to live as a self and will take as my self my fellow-creatures.

Bhartrihari