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<!--QuoteBegin-shamu+Aug 9 2009, 03:41 AM-->QUOTE(shamu @ Aug 9 2009, 03:41 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Their disclaimer page has the following
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"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." <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
[right][snapback]100229[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Buddha I think said that.
Yes, here: The Buddha and Critical Thinking at www.csudh.edu/oliver/smt310-handouts/buddha/buddha.htm
And I think he went one step further, asking people to perform a sanity check on his own words before accepting those:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Buddha: Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it - even if I have said it - unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
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So, was Buddha properly attributed?
<!--QuoteBegin-shamu+Aug 9 2009, 03:41 AM-->QUOTE(shamu @ Aug 9 2009, 03:41 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Their disclaimer page has the following
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"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." <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
[right][snapback]100229[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Buddha I think said that.
Yes, here: The Buddha and Critical Thinking at www.csudh.edu/oliver/smt310-handouts/buddha/buddha.htm
And I think he went one step further, asking people to perform a sanity check on his own words before accepting those:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Buddha: Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it - even if I have said it - unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
So, was Buddha properly attributed?