QuoteQuest“No one saves us but ourselves, No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path Buddhas merely teach the way. By ourselves is evil done, By ourselves is pain endured, By ourselves we cease from wrong, By ourselves become we pure.”
— Buddha
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AttributedRecorded by a reliable secondary source; exact wording may differ.
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Gautama Buddha
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
Ch. 165, as translated in The Dharma, or The Religion of Enlightenment; An Exposition of Buddhism (1896) by Paul Carus; variants for some years have included "We ourselves must walk the path but Buddhas clearly show the way", but this is not yet located in any of the original publications of Carus.
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Buddha. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Gautama Buddha. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha
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