Thursday, January 29, 2009
Don't believe rather know
“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
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My thoughts on the same line -
"Be your own master; don’t follow anybody. No one can teach you the truth; no one can show you the truth. Neither you can learn from anybody; nor can you see though somebody else, other than you, yourself."
Be an independent thinker; don’t borrow the thoughts. “Don’t believe, rather know”.
I always beleive in being rebellion.
"Be a rebellion; challenge all the traditions & religions, all the preachers & teachers, all the saints & the society and make your own foundation." - Vaibhav
Believe in something that you know because you experienced
Right Mayank, out of experience comes great understanding. ANd one should always beleive in his own experience and should not follow others.
“If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.” -
William Barclay quotes
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