[Buddha-l] Say what?

[Piya Tan]

Not by the historical Buddha, as far as I know. Perhaps it is a lazy
translation of
a text.

Piya


On Jan 29, 2008 12:31 AM, Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:

> Fellow denizens,
>
> Every day I get a Peace Quote in my inbox. Being a Buddhist I am of course
> an
> incurable absolute pacifist, so I love these quotes. Today's quote took me
> by
> surprise. It is attributed to the Buddha, but I have never seen anything
> quite like it in any Buddhist text, although I have frequently said almost
> exactly what this alleged quote says while teaching mettaa-bhaavanaa.
>
> Can someone identify this quote, or at least some qutation of which this
> might
> be an apt paraphrase?
>
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
>
> Subject: PEACE Quote
> Date: Monday 28 January 2008 04:02
> From: Daily Peace Quote <peacequotes at livingcompassion.org>
>
> Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love
> the
>  world. - The Buddha
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> --
> Richard P. Hayes
> Department of Philosophy
> University of New Mexico
> http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes <http://www.unm.edu/%7Erhayes>
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