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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rapa" data-source="post: 3285784" data-attributes="member: 212">I thought you're talking about copy cat thing <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/wink.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" data-shortname=";)" />In that case we must have a perspicacity what our elders, teachers..etc... was told and what was right,That what Gautama Buddha said to the Kalamas    * Do not go upon what has been acquired by repeated hearing ;    * nor upon tradition    * nor upon rumor ;    * nor upon what is in a scripture ;    * nor upon surmise;    * nor upon an axiom;    * nor upon specious reasoning;    * nor upon a bias towards a notion that has been pondered over;    * nor upon another's seeming ability;    * nor upon the consideration, "The monk is our teacher."    * Kalamas, when you yourselves know: "These things are good; these things are not blamable; these things are praised by the wise; undertaken and observed, these things lead to benefit and happiness," enter on and abide in them.'The Buddha provides ten specific sources which should not be used to accept a specific teaching as true, without further verification:   1. Oral history   2. Traditional   3. News sources   4. Scriptures or other official texts   5. Logical reasoning   6. Philosophical reasoning   7. Common sense   8. One's own opinions   9. Authorities or experts  10. One's own teacher<a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an03/an03.065.than.html" target="_blank">http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an03/an03.065.than.html</a>You can also listening the Kalama Sutta<a href="http://www.mahamevna.org/downloads/mp3/1/1.7_Kalama_Sutta.mp3" target="_blank">http://www.mahamevna.org/downloads/mp3/1/1.7_Kalama_Sutta.mp3</a></blockquote>

Verification: Dahaya deken beduwama keeyada?

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