Fake Buddha Quotes collected

[petzl]

Yeah, well, just remember that the highest form of Buddha is Not Buddha.

[SqualusAcanthias]

[jsroberts]

@teknocholer

All together now: Can you make me One with Everything?

Dalai Lama Joke FAIL Pizza Joke one with everything

@teknocholer

The average Westerner knows little about Buddhism except for a vague idea that it is about peace, humility, and simplicity, and these values resonate with many people. When they see a quote that seems to fit in with that philosophy, they find it inspiring and are predisposed to believe it is genuine.

That’s so Zen.

@teknocholer

Which raises the related issue of completely false quotes made up to serve an agenda. Evangelical Christians are particularly fond of deathbed repentances and conversions.

Mormons don’t even need that.

[jsroberts]

@Chesterfield

When my kids were in preschool, they were friends with a kid whose first name was Buddha.

I actually met a living Buddha once - she was a teenage girl in China who got fed up of that life and quit Buddhism. (I have no idea how authentic this claim was, I just know that this is how she was being raised until she got out and moved to our city).

[samthepea]

[teknocholer]

@petzl

Yeah, well, just remember that the highest form of Buddha is Not Buddha.

“Buddha or Not Buddha. There is no try.”
– Buddha

@jsroberts

That’s so Zen.

I know. It’s just like the Buddha says, man - it’s all karma.

[TooGoodToCheck_]

@ficuswhisperer

Hey, now I know how Jesus gets misattributed so often. They didn’t specify which Jesus it was.

[Vert]

@ficuswhisperer

You don’t want to see an angry Buddhist. They will enlighten your face with their fists.

Nonviolently, of course.

[Medievalist]

Buddhists aren’t necessarily nonviolent. Several sects are rather notably violent.

Itō Ittōsai was a Japanese Zen Buddhist, and his name mostly means “the guy who will kill you instantly without even thinking about it”.

[ficuswhisperer]

Yeah, let’s not forget it was the Shaolin monks that invented kung-fu after all.

[Israel_B]

During the warring states period in Japan, well armed Buddhist sects played a big part in the overall power struggle

[Mindysan33]

@Whim

George Carlin

[OtherMichael]

No need to get all historical -

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Say, anybody notice where @enso goes on “vacation” ?

[Vert]

It was a joke!

But yeah, sadly, just one among many religions to advocate nonviolence and yet have many violent adherents.

[enso]

@OtherMichael

Say, anybody notice where @enso goes on “vacation” ?