What the Buddha Taught

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BASIC BUDDHISM: What the Buddha Taught

 

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.

Do not believe in traditions simply because they have been handed

down for many generations.

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.

But when, after observation and analysis, you find anything that

agrees with reason,

And is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept

it and live up to it. 

 

The Buddha's Kalama Sutra