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The Buddha lived at a time when the last republics (including the one in which he was born) were starting to be swallowed up by the newly-emergent monarchies. That’s very different from his father having been a king.
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His father may have been the elected head of this council. The Sakyan Republic from which he came was governed instead by a ruling council, probably comprising the heads of the most important families. In the early texts there is no mention of him being a prince or his father being a king. The Buddha himself came from a Republic in which there were, of course, no kings and no princes. If we were to (anachronistically) describe those beliefs and practices as “Hindu” then the Buddha had thoroughly rejected Hinduism. Certainly, by the time he was “Buddha” (The One Who Is Awakened) he’d rejected all of the major teachings derived from the Vedic tradition, including the caste system, the worship of the gods, the efficacy of sacrifice, the power of prayer, the notion that one can purify oneself through ritual, and so on. These two teachers followed meditative traditions, but it’s anachronistic to refer to them, or the Buddha, as Hindus. So first let me state that the Buddha was not a “Hindu Prince.” He was not a “Hindu” and he was not a “prince.” We don’t know what, if any, religious tradition the Buddha-to-be followed in his youth, and the first mention that’s made of any religious endeavors is his encounters with the two teachers Alara Kalama and Uddaka Ramaputta. It’s ironic that this, one of the commonest Fake Buddha Quotes, is about not believing things just because you’ve read them somewhere, but for many people the assumption seems to be, “It must be true - I saw it on a website!” 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.”īuddha quotes (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.) Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
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I’ve dealt with a libertarian mistranslation of this verse elsewhere, but this version is different.īut here’s the full quote, lifted from one of the well-known quotes sites that litter the web: “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it”: This is just the start of a calamitous misreading of a famous passage from the Kalama Sutta.