{"id":505,"date":"2007-06-08T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T17:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2007\/06\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-the-budd.html"},"modified":"2007-06-08T17:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T17:31:00","slug":"sit-a-long-with-jundo-the-budd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2007\/06\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-the-budd.html","title":{"rendered":"SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: The Buddha was Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"


Maybe the Buddha was just a clever, but ordinary, man.<\/p>\n

Maybe the Buddha didn’t even really exist.<\/p>\n

Maybe the Buddha was wrong about some things (and right about some things).<\/p>\n

Maybe nobody knows what the Buddha truly said.<\/p>\n

Maybe every single one of the Sutras was written centuries later by a writer putting words in the Buddha’s mouth.<\/p>\n

Maybe naive superstitions, local beliefs and nonsense mixed into Buddhism over the centuries.<\/p>\n

Maybe you, me and every other Buddhist teacher and student is wrong about many beliefs now.<\/p>\n

Maybe there will always be mysteries about life that the smartest human being will never solve …<\/p>\n

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Does any of that matter?<\/span>
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