[Buddha-l] [Fwd: PEACE Quote]

[Curt Steinmetz]

Things the Buddha should have said:

1. "If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made 
a great many more mistakes."

2. "Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."

3. "As soon as you smell Rome you will forget all that you have said."

4. "In the long run, we're all dead."

5. "Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not 
mastered it."

6. "A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers."

7. "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, 
hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats."

8. "He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of 
course, he really is dead."

9. "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, 
fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. "

10. "It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, 
we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."

11. "A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears."

12. "Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own 
integrity. "

13. "Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, 
rough and thorny way."

14. "Theorists are not at a loss to explain. But they differ."

15. "If only hunger could be so easily satisfied - by merely rubbing 
one's stomach." [in reference to masturbation]

16. "I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at 
the trough."

17. "What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others."

18. "At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its 
chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets."

19. "Many are the wandbearers - but few are the true Initiates." [in 
reference to the cult of Dionysos]

1 Lev Davidovich Bronstein (aka Leon Trotsky)
2 Voltaire
3 Epictetus
4 John Maynard Keynes
5 Trotsky
6-7 H. L. Menken
8 Voltaire (paraphrasing Plato)
9-10 Edgar Allen Poe
11-13 Michel de Montaigne
14 Aleister Crowley
15 - 17 Diogenes the Cynic
18 Oscar Wilde
19 Plato


Katherine Masis wrote:
> Yes, I also get inundated with forwarded e-mails attributing sayings to the Buddha and the Dalai Lama.  One of the most recent ones I got here in Costa Rica was a personality test (in Spanish), supposedly devised by the Dalai Lama.  It had a dog, a sheep, a tiger and other animals on it.  The order in which you answered some questions with animals showed your personality at the end.  Probably the Dalai Lama just rolls on the floor laughing when and if he sees this stuff.
>  
> Joanna, I always thought that when people used to say "Confucius says, ...." it was some kind of joke, or the beginning of a joke--was it?
>  
> Katherine Masis
>  
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> Wasn't the first sage this happened to Confucius? 
> Back in the forties-----"Confucius says,..." followed by anything
> the speaker felt like saying. 
> Joanna K
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> It sort of reminds of the many quotes by "the Dalai Lama" that
> get forwarded to me.  I don't know why people feel the need to
> falsely attribute their own ideas to the Dalai Lama or the
> Buddha.  One would think their conscience would catch up with
> them at some point.
> Jim Blumenthal
>
>
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