Freedom Of Thought

Buddhist teaching says do not believe what your book says, do not believe what your teachers would say, do not believe what your tradition says, do not take anything merely because it comes to you with the authority of somebody else; make it a personal experience, think for yourself and be convinced. And once you are convinced act accordingly. Me being a skeptical individual, preferring the scientific way of thinking rather than any form of belief system as in religious thought processes, find the Buddhist approach a very modern idea.