For Those Who Know
For Those Who Know
Whatever one frequently thinks and ponders upon, that will become the inclination of his mind. -- MN 19
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Cittasanto
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Re: For Those Who Know
Blog, Suttas, Aj Chah, Facebook.
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.
John Stuart Mill
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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dumb bonbu
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Re: For Those Who Know
lol, where'd you find it Will if you don't mind me asking? 
Monks, even if bandits were to carve you up savagely, limb by limb, with a two-handled saw, he among you who let his heart get angered even at that would not be doing my bidding.
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Re: For Those Who Know
scroll down a little - http://www.bsangha.net/index.php?p=news" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;dumb bonbu wrote:lol, where'd you find it Will if you don't mind me asking?
Whatever one frequently thinks and ponders upon, that will become the inclination of his mind. -- MN 19
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