Fourteen Unanswerable questions (In Buddhism)

[chronictoker]

Just thought I'd post this, cuz it's kinda interesting...At least the Buddha doesn't have
an answer for everything, I find that very refreshing although somewhat dissapointing...


Questions referring to the world: concerning the existence of the world in time

• Is the world eternal?
• or not?
• or both?
• or neither?

Questions referring to the world: concerning the existence of the world in space

• Is the world finite?
• or not?
• or both?
• or neither?

Questions referring to what is beyond the world

• Does the Tathagata exist after death?
• or not?
• or both?
• or neither?

Questions referring to personal experience

• Is the self identical with the body?
• or is it different from the body?

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Buddha's answer to the questions

The Buddha remained silent when asked these fourteen questions. He described them as a net and refused to be drawn into such a net of theories, speculations, and dogmas. He said that it was because he was free of the bondage of all theories and dogmas that he had attained liberation. Such speculations, he said, are attended by fever, unease, bewilderment, and suffering, and it is by freeing oneself of them that one achieves liberation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourtee...able_questions

[JonBongJovi]

Interesting. Maybe I'll get blazed later and reflect. That's always fun. :-)