Buddha Purnima, also known as Vesak, is an important festival celebrated by Buddhists around the world to commemorate the birth, enlightenment, and death of Gautama Buddha.

Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhartha Gautama, was a spiritual teacher who lived in ancient India and founded the religion of Buddhism. He was born in 563 BCE in Lumbini, Nepal, into a royal family.

Despite his privileged upbringing, he became disillusioned with the material world and set out on a spiritual quest to find enlightenment and the cause of suffering.

After years of meditation and self-discipline, he attained enlightenment at the age of 35 while sitting under a Bodhi tree in Bodh Gaya, India. He spent the rest of his life teaching the path to enlightenment and spreading his message of compassion, nonviolence, and the Four Noble Truths.

Here are some notable quotes by Gautama Buddha:

  1. "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
  2. "All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage."
  3. "The mind is everything. What you think you become."
  4. "Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."
  5. "It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."
  6. "Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law."
  7. "The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows."
  8. "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
  9. "You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger."
  10. "The root of suffering is attachment."

The Four Noble Truths, which form the foundation of Buddhism, are:

  1. The truth of suffering (dukkha).
  2. The truth of the cause of suffering (samudaya).
  3. The truth of the cessation of suffering (nirodha).
  4. The truth of the path to the cessation of suffering (magga).