Anagārika Alāra, PhD

Did Buddha spend 45 years tirelessly walking and teaching, or was that a 'retcon' story invented by the later prose authors of the suttas, to justify the long canon they needed to write in order to compete with Hinduism? #buddhism #earlybuddhism #hinduism #palicanon #religion #scripture #canon #prose #poetry #competition #fiction #nonfiction #tradition #oraltradition #history #retcon

If either science or Buddhism is right, there is no difference between you and other people, animals, plants, etc. We're all the same matter/energy in different configurations. Therefore, we should see everyone and everything as our family, and should take care of each other as well as possible.

#buddhism #science #humanity #plants #animals #matter #energy #family #care #compassion #kindness #metta #love