Doubt
vanishes 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
phenomenon 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 remnant clinging is the supreme!
The recluse does neither dispute that, nor does
he ever prolong any becoming...
Sutta-Nipāta 862-877
Edited excerpt.
Buddhist
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More on clearing Doubt-&-Uncertainty by
asking questions:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Noble_Purpose.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Sakkas_Question.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Who_is_the_Creator.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Questions_to_the_Boy.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Investigation.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Neither_Agent_nor_Actor.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Fixed_Destiny_or_Free_Will.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Curing_Doubt_and_Uncertainty.htm
