Summary: Dhamma on Air #25 Audio: The 10 indeterminable questions Corresponding Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6XkNNwaSDM Dhamma Questions answered: Q52: Why did the Buddha refuse to answer the 14 unanswered questions? The 10 indeterminable questions (avyaakata = unanswerable) are: 1: Is the universe eternal? 2: Is the universe not eternal? 3: Is the universe finite? 4: Is the universe infinite? 5: After death, does a Buddha continue to exist? 6: After death, does a Buddha not continue to exist? 7: After death, does a Buddha both continue to exist and not to exist? 8: After death, does a Buddha neither continue to exist, nor not to exist? 9: Are the body and the “self/soul/mind” the same entity (mind-brain dilemma)? 10: Are the body and the “self/soul/mind” fully separable, and different entities? Q53-A: What is good intention? Q53-B: Does it matter whether one does abstain from doing evil: A: Due to Awareness of a detrimental state such as envy, fear, pride, or anger? or B: From analysis seeing the painful kammic consequences of that evil behaviour? See Also: What is indeterminable and irresolvable? https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Undeclared.htm AN 7.51 PTS: A iv 67 Avyakata Sutta: Undeclared https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/an/an07/an07.051.than.html MN 63 PTS: M i 426 Cula-Malunkyovada Sutta: The Shorter Instructions to Malunkya https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/mn/mn.063.than.html MN 72 PTS: M i 483 Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta: To Vacchagotta on Fire https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/mn/mn.072.than.html All Dhamma on Airs are listed and linked here: http://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm Dhamma on Airs MP3 Audios are streaming & downloadable here: https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/sets/early_buddhism Please email New Questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com
