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Lesson 3.3.4 Cintasuttaṃ – Thoughts to be Avoided and to be Performed
A ‘spiritual seeker’ usually follows an ‘inner calling’ that urges one to look beyond all day-to-day vicissitudes, challenges and duties. Somehow this seeker tends to feel discontented with whatever has been achieved on the mundane level and wants to look beyond. The fields of religion and philosophy offer a vast spectrum of interesting suggestions and theories to help understand this new calling but generally give rise to many counter-arguments leaving the seeker still unsatisfied. For those who are looking beyond mere theoretical knowledge, the Buddha repeatedly rejected all reasoning that would not lead to applied practice in order to realise what one was looking for: a state of inner peace and calm. That is why he repeated frequently that he taught only two things: suffering and the way out.