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Eleven questions
The Buddha declared in every city, wherever come:
- Please do not ask questions eleven. These issues include all the important concepts of God, the soul, death, life, truth, etc.
When asked: "Why?", He replied:
- Because they can not be answered. Not that I did not know the answers, but, firstly, it is impossible to put into words, and secondly, the knowledge of these things is not conducive to the sanctity of life and does not lead to enlightenment, and thirdly, these issues create beliefs that prevent you perceive the true reality. Ask about anger and how to go beyond it. Ask about the greed of the affection of the transformation. Ask about how to drop the mind and reach a state of meditation.
Buddha stayed in the village, and the crowd brought to him a blind man. One man said to the Buddha:
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