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Pastimes : History's effect on Religion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (429)	3/6/2007 7:11:18 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 520

So what's left? Here the Buddha lays out a subtle and quite unique epistemology: “Oh Kalamas, when you know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome and wrong and bad, then give them up. And when you know that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them.” But how to interpret this key passage? Its kind of a Delphic Oracle type statement, one you can't argue with. Certainly it is how I live my life. Of course, in coming to know anything for oneself, we do an awful lot of standing on others shoulders in the modern world. You might just call the above statement Freedom of Thought for example. Each person believes what he comes to believe on his own free will. But that does not sidestep the fact that our knowledge largely comes from the current collective pool of human knowledge. Not much comes from staring at ones navel.