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Doubt is overcome by asking those who Know! The brahmin Māgandiya once asked the Buddha some subtle questions:
Question: How does quarrels and disputes arise? Answer: From what is liked and beloved arise quarrels and disputes. Question: How does these likes, longings and hopes emerge? Answer: Likes, longings and hopes all have desire as their origin. Question: How does this desire come into being? Answer: Desire arises depending on pleasure and pain.
Question: How does pleasure and pain then appear? Answer: Pleasure and pain arises depending on contact.
Question: How does this event of contact happen? Answer: Contact arises dependent upon name and form.
Question: How does such sensed contact completely cease? Answer: When form has disappeared, contacts cannot make contact....
Question: In which mental state does all forms of form disappear? Answer: In neither-perception-nor-non-perception does all form disappear! Question: Is this state the supreme mental purity? Answer: The state of quenching without remaining clinging is the supreme! The recluse does neither dispute that, nor does he renew any existence... Sutta-Nipāta 862-877 Edited excerpt.

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