[greekbeast]

Hi Joe,

Please could you give a URL reference link and use speech marks " " or use the quote facility in your posting box (looks like a speech bubble) for any quotes which you copy from elsewhere on the internet. Its also not a good idea to use 'Buddha Quotes' from quote sites because they are often inaccurate. Probably the best place to find translations of the Buddha's teachings from the Pali Canon is the Access to Insight website. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/help.html#map

I think your quote above is derived from the well known Kalama sutta AN 3.65 which you might like to read for yourself at the link below . Heres an extract from it:

"So, as I said, Kalamas: 'Don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, "This contemplative is our teacher." When you know for yourselves that, "These qualities are skillful; these qualities are blameless; these qualities are praised by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to welfare & to happiness" — then you should enter & remain in them.' Thus was it said. And in reference to this was it said.

"Now, Kalamas, one who is a disciple of the noble ones — thus devoid of greed, devoid of ill will, undeluded, alert, & resolute — keeps pervading the first direction [the east] — as well as the second direction, the third, & the fourth — with an awareness imbued with good will. Thus he keeps pervading above, below, & all around, everywhere & in every respect the all-encompassing cosmos with an awareness imbued with good will: abundant, expansive, immeasurable, free from hostility, free from ill will.

more at the link:

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipit....065.than.html

with kind wishes

Aloka