Siddhartha Quotes
Kelly Carter
Checkpoint: Eastern Religious Philosophy Quotes
Jason Chang
05/25/2011
The first quotation that I would like to discuss is Buddhism: Siddhartha Gautama.
Siddhartha was a great figure because one day on a trip to the city, he discovered that many people with in the city were suffering. He wanted to know why people had suffered that way they did so he chose to leave his life of luxury, abandon his family and live in the woods as one of them for several years. When doing he so he came to the conclusion that suffering can be avoided. He explains that ignorance and selfishness causes suffering. Suffering is in part with Karma which means “action” or “deed”, karma reflects in the later life through the actions or deeds done right now.
Quote: “All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?”
I like this quote because a person does have a choice to change their selfish ways, by understanding how it affects people, and how ignorance and selfishness can be locked away permanently through cleansing of the mind.
Lao Tzu- “To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.” …show more content…
Tzu was very interested in how we should live ad different ways that a good society is governed. The quote reminds us that we can always be open to learning and discovering even when we think we have mastered something! Another thing that I would like to add is that Tzu believed that all enduring change is brought by weakness and not by strength; by submission and not intervention. I feel that this means people bring about change on themselves. Selfishness and ignorance can blind us and we eventually have to submit to
Checkpoint: Eastern Religious Philosophy Quotes
Jason Chang
05/25/2011
The first quotation that I would like to discuss is Buddhism: Siddhartha Gautama.
Siddhartha was a great figure because one day on a trip to the city, he discovered that many people with in the city were suffering. He wanted to know why people had suffered that way they did so he chose to leave his life of luxury, abandon his family and live in the woods as one of them for several years. When doing he so he came to the conclusion that suffering can be avoided. He explains that ignorance and selfishness causes suffering. Suffering is in part with Karma which means “action” or “deed”, karma reflects in the later life through the actions or deeds done right now.
Quote: “All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?”
I like this quote because a person does have a choice to change their selfish ways, by understanding how it affects people, and how ignorance and selfishness can be locked away permanently through cleansing of the mind.
Lao Tzu- “To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.” …show more content…
Tzu was very interested in how we should live ad different ways that a good society is governed. The quote reminds us that we can always be open to learning and discovering even when we think we have mastered something! Another thing that I would like to add is that Tzu believed that all enduring change is brought by weakness and not by strength; by submission and not intervention. I feel that this means people bring about change on themselves. Selfishness and ignorance can blind us and we eventually have to submit to