What the Buddha did not Teach

Teachers/Scholars/Translators will often attribute numerous views to the Buddha far removed from his teachings.

For example, here are 21 example of what the Buddha did not teach:

1. A founder of a religion with religious forms and rituals
2. A separate self/a non-separate self
3. Consciousness as the Absolute
4. Detachment
5. Free Will
6. Intense meditation practice
7. Inter-connectedness
8. Just being
9. Liberation through meditation
10. Life is suffering
11. Living in the present moment
12. Mantras
13. Master-disciple relationship
14. No thinking nor a thought-out philosophy
15. Oneness
16. Sub-atomic particles (kalapas in Pali)
17. The Now
18. The reification of mindfulness
19. Truth is within you
20. Vipassana (insight) is a technique
21. We create our own reality

It would be appreciated if writers/teachers/scholar/translators named the location in the text when stating what the Buddha said or possibly said – if we rely upon the Pali language and a reasonably accurate translation.

Why? The adopting, settling for and holding to such above standpoints obstruct liberation.

I have no interest to try to preserve a certain interpretation of the teachings.

Liberation takes priority.

Known as the Dharma, the teachings can contribute to wisdom. For some people, the Dharma makes a major and indispensable contribution to a liberated way of life.

Immediately preceding blog explores the

importance of the

Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha.