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“It can be one of the hardest things in life to lose your best friend.”
This is one of ten quotes that are in the web page that’s currently in first place for Google searches for “Buddha quotes on friendship.” All ten of the quotes on the page are fake. Click here to see...
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10 FAKE Buddha Quotes on Friendship
There are many pages on the internet offering supposed “Buddha quotes on friendship.” Some of those pages rank top on Google for searches on that topic. My own page on 10 genuine Buddha quotes on...
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“If a man’s mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.”
A friend asked me about this quote last year, but this is the first opportunity I’ve had to investigate and write it up. It was actually passed on to me in a slightly different form: “If a man’s mind...
View Article“If hate worked I would teach you that.”
So far this quote, “If hate worked I would teach you that,” doesn’t seem to be very widespread. So far it’s shown up in a few social media posts, but not in any blog posts or books that I’ve found....
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These two things, mendicants, lead to the decline and disappearance of the true teaching. What two? The words and phrases are misplaced, and the meaning is misinterpreted. When the words and phrases...
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My new book: “A Year of Buddha’s Wisdom”
Over the summer I wrote a book. The idea was presented to me by the publisher, who had decided that they needed a daily practice guide based on Buddhist teachings, and they wanted me essentially to...
View Article“Be kind to all creatures. This is the true religion.”
I’ve categorized this one — “Be kind to all creatures. This is the true religion” — as “fakeish” because I haven’t been able to find anything in the scriptures that closely matches it. I have a vague...
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The discourse I’m going to quote here is a kind of companion to another one that I’ve already dealt with, where the Buddha talks about how people will end up listening to teachings that are poetic and...
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“It is better to die fighting than to live as one vanquished”
I was asked about this quote some time ago, but got sidetracked and never wrote it up. This is an interesting one, because it’s from a book by the Italian fascist writer, Julius Evola (1898 to 1974)....
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Lot of people have written to tell me that the Buddha wouldn’t be at all concerned about being misquoted or having words put in his mouth. Because he was, like, this chill dude who’d say, “Whatever,...
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