Maha-Satipatthana Sutta

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Re: Maha-Satipatthana Sutta

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In relation to the world and the body; "Rather it is in this fathom long carcass with its perceptions and its mind that I describe the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world, and the way leading to the cessation of the world." S.N. 2:26
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thank-you
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
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He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
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Hi Retro & All
decided to start from the beginning again, so here is the finale if anyone want to read and comment on it.
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
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Re: Maha-Satipatthana Sutta

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I read this before, pracised this before, intend to repeat this again when a suitable opportune moment arises. Sadhu sadhu sadhu /\

" Maha-satipatthana Sutta: The Great Frames of Reference" (DN 22), translated from the Pali by Burma Piṭaka Association. Access to Insight, 17 April 2011, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .bpit.html . Retrieved on 20 September 2013.
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