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| Venerable P. A. Payutto (Ven. Phra Dhammapitaka) is widely acknowledged as Thailand's foremost Buddhist scholar. He has taught extensively in Thailand and also in the West. His experience and interest in both Eastern and Western cultures provide him with a rare scope for presenting Buddhist teachings and principles to modern sensibilities. |
| To apply the Buddha's advice and instructions is to be practising the Dhamma (the Teaching). This is to take the Buddha's Teaching personally. If one takes that Teaching personally enough, one is practising Dhamma (the way things are in themselves, unappropriated and unconceived). The Buddha's Teaching then has a conclusion, at which point one can finally relax: there is no longer anything new to be experienced. |
| 4. Anthology |
| The way to see is by seeing. Those who are blind, knowing nothing of sight, cannot even know their blindness. Indeed, ignorance (ie. self-deception) is the one thing that must be understood in order to be free from ignorance (self-deception). Whatever is said that spurs one to make the effort to see is well said. No amount of erudition will substitute for a call to action. |
| 5. Reflections |
| The purpose of Purpose. What should I do? (This is the question of Ethics.) No ethical action exists in isolation from a goal, a purpose. Our goal is to have goals, or a goal. Goals seek unification, a Purpose, purposes being way-stations. Ethical action tends to be self-limiting. Unethical action tends to be self-perpetuating. |
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