Fake Buddha Quotes – Page 35 – “I Can't Believe It's Not Buddha!”

“Never allow yourself to envy others. For you will lose sight of the truth that way.”

Soren Gordhamer has a nice little article in The Huffington Post called "If the Buddha Used Twitter." It’s based around five quotations that he uses as guidelines for how to how the Twitter service:

Never allow yourself to envy others. For you will lose sight of the truth that way.
Better than a thousand senseless verses is one that brings the hearer peace.
The one who talks of the path but never walks it is like a cowman counting cattle of others but who has none of his own.
The conquest of oneself is better than the conquest

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“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and common sense.”

Fairly often I see quotes attributed to the Buddha that bear no little or no resemblance to anything that’s found in Buddhist scriptures. One example is from a Christian minister who holds meetings in prison at the same time I’m there leading my Buddhist study group. He informed me that the Buddha had said that a greater teacher than him would arise in 500 years, and that we should follow that guy instead. Guess who that would be? The pastor and I had an interesting conversation about the ethics of making up quotes to denigrate other religions and promote your …

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