Concept
Doubt
Not knowing what is true, and having to live somewhere in the meantime.
4 passages · 3 traditions
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Aṅguttara Nikāya 3.65, “With the Kālāmas”"There are, sir, some ascetics and brahmins who come to Kesamutta. They explain and promote only their own doctrine, while they attack, badmouth, disparage, and smear the doctrines of others…ScriptureRead as scripture by its tradition
Majjhima Nikāya 63, the simile of the arrowSuppose a man was struck by an arrow thickly smeared with poison. His friends and colleagues, relatives and kin would get a surgeon to treat him. But the man would say: ‘I won’t extract this…