Fake Buddha Quotes – “I Can't Believe It's Not Buddha!”

Lot of people have written to tell me that the Buddha wouldn’t be at all concerned about being misquoted or having words put in his mouth. Because he was, like, this chill dude who’d say, “Whatever, homie,” or something like that. Apparently the more...

I was asked about this quote some time ago, but got sidetracked and never wrote it up.
This is an interesting one, because it’s from a book by the Italian fascist writer, Julius Evola (1898 to 1974). Evola wasn’t very keen on Christianity. The Catholic Herald had this to say about him:...

The discourse I’m going to quote here is a kind of companion to another one that I’ve already dealt with, where the Buddha talks about how people will end up listening to teachings that are poetic and sound nice, but that aren’t the genuine teachings...

I’ve categorized this one — “Be kind to all creatures. This is the true religion” — as “fakeish” because I haven’t been able to find anything in the scriptures that closely matches it. I have a vague recollection of having seen something close to this...