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Seeking Truth

February 6th 2007 14:37


A man had been wounded by a poisoned arrow and when attended to by a physician were to say, 'I will not allow you to remove this arrow until I have learned the caste, the age, the occupation, the birthplace, and the motivation of the person who wounded me.' That man would die before having learned all this. In exactly the same way, anyone who should say, 'I will not follow the teaching of the Blessed One until the Blessed One has explained all the multiform truths of the world' - that person would die before he had all this explained."

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Seeking truths of life while not applying what was learnt into real life would bring no benefit to the lifetime.

Source: Majjhima Nikaya, translated by H. C. Warren

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Comment by Adrian

February 6th 2007 18:35


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As I understand it, this post is about the difference between practice and knowledge; and this is a hard problem to untangle, in my opinion.

On the one hand, people don't want to commit to anything till they have sufficient knowledge of what they're letting themselves in for. On the other hand, they'll never have complete knowledge.

Comment by Damo

February 7th 2007 02:31
I get it.
No point discussing if the food is real or not when you really need to do is eat it.

Comment by WeR1Family

February 7th 2007 02:46


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Great comments, Adrian and Damo!
Thanks! Truly philosophical! ^_^

Comment by Lilla

February 9th 2007 07:30


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where I come from it's called walking your talk...

Nice post as always,
Lilla ...

Comment by Nika

February 10th 2007 08:25
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Nika

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