Do not believe in anything 

Simply because you have heard it 

Do not believe in anything

Simply because it’s spoken and rumoured by many

Do not believe in anything

Simply because it’s found written in your religious books

Do not believe in anything

Merely on the authority of your teachers and elders

Do not believe in traditions because

They have been handed down for many generations.

But after careful observations and analysis

When you find that anything agrees with reason.

And is conductive to the good and benefit to one and all

Then accept it and live up to it.     

                                                ~Lord Gathama Buddha~