Mentions (7)
"All Gaitok wanted was to be like the Buddha and stay true to his peaceful nature even if it meant giving up his job and his dream girl. Then he shoots a man in the back and gets everything he ever wanted."
"Its crazy that Buddha lived 2,500 years ago but you can still follow his instructions word for word and achieve exactly what he meant. Kinda makes him the goat mystic tbh. In a class of his own."
"It's actually really incredible that Islam came into such places through words, patterns, and colors, and displaced beliefs revolving around floridly depicted statues of Buddha or Ganesh."
"However, the highest heroism is that which is based on humanity, truth, justice and pity; all other forms are doomed to forgetfulness. The greatness of Aristotle or Kant is insignificant compared with the greatness of Buddha, Moses and Christ."
"The Pali Canon is extremely practical and unambiguous about what to do. You can literally go do it rn if you have the mental strength. I myself do not, but I recognize that it is possible."
"The Pali Canon is extremely practical and unambiguous about what to do. You can literally go do it rn if you have the mental strength."
"Ananda runs him to the Buddha, happy regard that he is, and tells the Buddha, 'You're never going to believe this! There's a guy at the river WALKING on the water.' The Buddha goes and sees the guy walking on the water... 'That's a shame.', says the Buddha, and flips him a coin, 'Because I know just"