Fake Buddha Quote: “In the sky there is no distinction of east and west;...
This is another of the Fake Buddha Quotes that appeared in Tricycle’s blog yesterday. Tricycle managed to pull off the feat of having every single one of the Buddha quotes in an article be fake (some...
View Article“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” Buddha
My reputation as a Fake-Buddha-Quote-Buster is spreading. Today a non-Buddhist friend, trembling no doubt at the thought of incurring my wrath and scorn by posting a quotation erroneously attributed to...
View ArticleFake Buddha Quote: “In separateness lies the world’s great misery, in...
Again, my skills as a Fake-Buddha-Quote-ologist were called upon today. It’s a tough job, but someone’s gotta do it. A Twitter friend asked me what I thought of this quote: In seperateness [sic] lies...
View ArticleFake Buddha Quote: “It is better to travel well than to arrive.”
I found this one on “BrainyQuote“: It is better to travel well than to arrive. Buddha This seems to be a variation on Robert Louis Stevenson’s “To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive,”...
View ArticleFake Buddha Quote: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and...
Marianne Marquez’ Why the Buddha Smiled — a book of photos accompanied by Buddha Quotes (many of them fake) — is the gift that keeps on giving, as far as this Fake-Buddha-Quote-ologist is concerned....
View ArticleFake Buddha Quote: “Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what...
Welcome to the first Fake Buddha Quote of 2011 (and on the occasion of my 50th birthday, no less). A Twitter friend (someone I don’t know personally) tweeted the following the other day: Each morning...
View ArticleFake Buddha Quote: “The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought,...
This Fake Buddha Quote was forwarded to me today, and it’s one I’d never seen before: “The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.” This one’s...
View ArticleFake Buddha Quote: “My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have...
I came across this one on Google+, where I’ve now encountered a couple of Fake Buddha Quotes, both of which were posted by the same person, interestingly enough: “My doctrine is not a doctrine but just...
View Article“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of...
Someone on Facebook asked me about this one today. It’s not a genuine saying of the Buddha’s. It’s from a Japanese book on Buddhism called “The Teaching of Buddha.” This book does contain translations...
View ArticleFake Buddha Quote: “Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a...
On May 3, 2012, at 4:17 AM, Jundo Cohen wrote: Name: Jundo Cohen Email: Jundo … .com Subject: Fake Buddha Quote Message: Hello, I have another quote floating around the internet that strikes me as...
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