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KALAMA SUTTA. กาลามสูตร. The Kālāma Sutta or Sanskrit: Kālāma Sūtra ; which pronounce:Kalama Sut , or Kesamutti Sutta ; Pāli : Kesamuttisuttaṃ ; Burmese: Kalama thoke ; Kethamotti thoke Thai: กาลามสูตร
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KALAMA SUTTA กาลามสูตร
The KālāmaSutta or Sanskrit: KālāmaSūtra; which pronounce:KalamaSut, or KesamuttiSutta; Pāli: Kesamuttisuttaṃ; Burmese: Kalama thoke; Kethamottithoke Thai: กาลามสูตร is a discourse of the Buddha contained in theAṅguttaraNikaya of the Tipiṭaka. It is often cited by those of the Theravada and Mahayana traditions alike as the Buddha's “charter of free inquiry.”
Do not go upon what has been acquired byrepeatedhearing, 2.nor upon tradition, 3.nor upon rumor, 4.nor upon what is in a scripture, 5.nor upon surmise, 6.nor upon an axiom, 7.nor upon specious reasoning, nor upon a bias towards a notionthat has been pondered over, 9.nor upon another's seeming ability, nor upon the consideration, "The monk is our teacher."
The KālāmaSutta is also used for advocating prudence by the use of sound logical reasoningarguments and the dialectic principles for inquiries in the practice that relates to the discipline of seeking truth, wisdom and knowledge whether it is religious or not. In short, the KālāmaSutta is opposed to blind faith, dogmatism and belief spawned from specious reasoning.