Believe Nothing (2002) is a British sitcom starring Rik Mayall as Quadruple Professor Adonis Cnut, the cleverest man in Britain, and Oxford's leading moral philosopher. Also, I’ve never claimed to be an expert in Pali. In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. You also have to criticize your own thinking. Fear is the mind-killer. If a teacher says something like “taking drugs is the path to happiness” you don’t have to try drugs. So he asks them to reflect on what the observed effects are of acting out of greed and non-greed, hatred and non-hatred, and delusion and non-delusion. I wasn’t intellectually sharp enough to grasp the meaning from the original post alone, but reading though your responses in the comments has helped me a lot. After King Bimbisara’s men recognised Siddhartha and the king learned of his quest, Bimbisara offered Siddhartha the throne. Explore 1000 Nothing Quotes by authors including Socrates, Donald Trump, and Edmund Burke at BrainyQuote. Reading between the lines, this may well have been connected with his uncertain status as the son of a tribal leader in one of the republics threatened by growing monarchies. A child's smile is worth more than all the money in the world. I always help in any way I can, even if it's just by signing an autograph. All rights reserved. Please contact the developer of this form processor to improve this message. This in turn would sustain a long-held theory of mine, that the “anatman-doctrine” of the buddha wasn’t so much the dogma it seems to be understood as, but merely a philosophical construct, a meditative technique, and a political statement against the vedic tradition of his time. Or was he fully aware of it being a tool rather than a truth? Pali is my mother language. The quote has at least two interpretations. self” -Leo Actualized.org, Your study of Siddhartha Gautama is limited. Some people outrightly spew thrash. An image is available here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Tipitaka1.jpg/800px-Tipitaka1.jpg. If it’s me, I’m a Buddhist, not a Christian, so I’m not sure why you’d think I have a belief in the absolute truth of the New Testament. Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, by Buddha. Your email address will not be published. – Dreams of Marigold, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha#Early_life_and_marriage, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Tipitaka1.jpg/800px-Tipitaka1.jpg. Through your experience (see point 1, above), whom have you found to be reliable and insightful in the past? One of them was Alara, who was of the Kalama clan, who lived not far from where the Buddha came from. Now you don’t have to take everything they say as being the absolute truth. Without an higher self, which sanctifies truth, the text reads like “never question your believe system, except you suddenly know something different, and then don’t use your faculties of discernment or ever after” or blander “don’t think. You can read about Gautama’s history with Alara in the Ariyapariyesana Sutta. I’ve just realized a year a go that I didn’t know anything. I believe in my convictions not what people tells me. Thank you for visiting these Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, by Buddha. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. When people are rude to you, they reveal who they are, not who you are.”, “A Tale of Two Bodhis”: Real Buddha Quotes in a novel, “Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Just to see if i understand correctly: the real text says that wise human beings are a good guide but, ultimately you rely on experience and common sense to follow that guidance? I’m from India, we have many native language but “Pali” and ‘Sanskrit’ is not in use in our’s day to day lives. It’s a classical language, not a living one. Thanks for your attention and thanks for sharing this site with us! But there is no Atman according to Buddha, everything is condition, so there is no higher self capable of knowing the truth. Not about the original scriptures but only about the wrong quote. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. (Except incase of few rular part of India who still adhere to speak in Sanskrit). The fake quote being addressed here is a bad paraphrase of that sutta. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. Thanks, Logic Lover. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Everyone should live by this principle. You may read about our disclaimer, privacy policy, terms of use, participation in affiliate programs, copyright policy, and republishing policy. Best regards Sir. if you want to know about the Buddha, it’s essential to disentangle yourself from traditional fables and to steep yourself in the earliest writings. What a deep and insightful quote! Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'! How can it be faulty if your experience tells you the truth in life. Teachers like you help me learn the true essence of Buddha’s teachings. This makes sense to me in the context of religion, or I guess any authority. A lot of people do a lot of things they are very uncomfortable with because religion says so. Gautama initially went to Rajagaha and began his ascetic life by begging for alms in the street. A few hundred years after the Buddha, when the monarchies had swallowed up the whole of India, people couldn’t even remember or imagine that there had been other ways of living, and so when they thought about the Buddha as a political leader in the making, they conceived of him as a prince, and his land as a kingdom.