On Buddha:
"Buddha was a great mind whose eyes pierced through the show of things to their core, but he was no rationalist in the modern sense of the term. Instead, he had a healthy contempt for intellectual systems and theories so popular with rationalists of all ages.
"Buddha was a great mind whose eyes pierced through the show of things to their core, but he was no rationalist in the modern sense of the term. Instead, he had a healthy contempt for intellectual systems and theories so popular with rationalists of all ages.
On more than one occasion (in Aggi-vacchagotta sutta, Majjhima Nikâya, for example), he called these theories "a net of sophistry (diTThi-jâla), a web of tangle (diTThi-ganthi), a jungle (diTThi-gahana), a wilderness (diTThikântâra), a thorn or puppet-show (diTThi-visûka)+
a writhing (diTThivipphandita), a fetter (diTThi-saMyojana), and an intoxicant (diTThiâsava)... coupled with misery, ruin, despair and agony (dukkha, vighâta, daurmanasya, upayâsa)".
For arriving at truth, he did not adopt the method of classification, comparison, verification+
For arriving at truth, he did not adopt the method of classification, comparison, verification+
deduction, experimentation which is what rational approach means, but the method of moral purification, meditation, intuition, passive waiting combined with alert watchfulness, steady and sustained aspiration, all leading to transcendental illumination, progressive or sudden -
the method of going beyond discursive mind for the light of the Truth".
Ref:
On Hinduism
Pg 85
On Hinduism
Pg 85
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