"To believe straight away is foolishness, to believe……" — Buddhadasa
"To believe straight away is foolishness, to believe after having seen clearly is good sense. That is the Buddhist policy in belief; not to believe stupidly, or to rely only on people, textbooks, conjecture, reasoning, or whatever the majority believes, but rather to believe what we see clearly for ourselves to be the case. This is how it is in Buddhism."
—
Buddhadasa
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
6 Quotes by Buddhadasa
Buddhadasa has 6 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to…
-
Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what's more, may even go astray. But those who try to…
-
Hell was OK, until some wise guy went to heaven and came back
-
The entire cosmos is a cooperative. The sun, the moon, and the stars live together as a cooperative. The same…
-
The practice is to make the non-arising of grasping and clinging absolute, final, and eternally void, so that no grasping…
See all 6 quotes by Buddhadasa »
More Belief Quotes
This quote is filed under Belief Quotes,
one of 5,318 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
— Richard Bach
-
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
— Isaac Asimov
-
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
-
I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
-
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
-
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
-
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
— Saint Augustine
-
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— Saint Augustine
-
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
-
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
-
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
-
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
See all 5,318 Belief Quotes »