On Aug 17, 2008, at 11:35 PM, awgabis wrote: > I just looked again at the description of the Fairfield Life group and > lo and behold, there was the same (almost) Buddha quote, worded this > way: > > "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no > matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and > your own common sense." ~ Buddha > > So hopefully this group's moderator can tell us where he/she found > this saying.
It was from me. I've heard it a number of times from different sources but at that time it was a friend who is a Roshi and he quoted it from Sutric Buddhist literature. I looked up the quote and posted it from the Dhammapada (Skt.: Dharmapada-sutra).
