“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni
6 comments:
Common sense everyone should live by.
Wow, sounds like a description of the Enlightenment Project.
The insight and wisdom of perhaps one of the world's greatest teachers of philosophy and psychology. As well as a great spiritual leader who taught the Four Noble Truths and the Eight Fold Path.
Relative reality, the world we create from our obscured and deluded views, is but our thoughts and beliefs, projected outwards from our duality focused ego.
Reality will never be exactly as one would like it to be. Reality simply is. Way Beyond our immediate control. Perhaps when we learn to just be and stop the attachment to some things and the aversion to others, and understand our interconnectedness and interbeing with our world our suffering will diminished and eventually dissolve.
🙏 Namaste
Yeah, ya ought to try it JC.
Well, well. The cultist has spoken.
Enlightenment is the last thing Joe Con cares about.
Trump is his messiah, power is his god, and greed is his sacrament.
Joe Con has shown us he rejects all the truth, compassion, and wisdom of the world just to promote white nationalism and the lies, hate and ignorance of Donald Trump as his gospel.
In the "information age" it is difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff and many times it is just easier to accept what is published.
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