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    What is indeterminable & irresolvable?


 

The 10 indeterminable subjects deliberately undeclared by the Buddha:

1: The cosmos is eternal
2: The cosmos is not eternal,
3: The cosmos is finite...
4: The cosmos is infinite...
5: The soul (mind) & the body (brain) are the same. (inseparable)
6: The soul (mind) is one thing and the body (brain) another. (separable)

7: After death a Tathagata exists...
8: After death a Tathagata does not exist...
9: After death a Tathagata both does & does not exist...
10: After death a Tathagata neither exists nor does he not exist.


“And they lived arguing, quarreling, and disputing, wounding one another
with
weapons of the mouth, saying, "The Dhamma is like this, not like that.
The Dhamma's not like that, it's like this." Ud 6.4

 

Due to their irresolvable nature, these 10 questions should be laid all aside,
since
they only provoke endless and fruitless dispute, which needless to say
blocks any progress toward the ending of suffering!

 



Sources:

AN 10.93 Ditthi Sutta: Views A v 185

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an10/an10.093.than.html
MN 63  i 426 Cula-Malunkyovada Sutta: The Shorter Instructions to Malunkya
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.063.than.html

Ud 6.4 Ud 66 Tittha Sutta: Various Sectarians
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/ud/ud.6.04.than.html
AN 7.51 A iv 67 Avyakata Sutta: Undeclared
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an07/an07.051.than.html

 

The Undeclared!


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