“It is fitting for you to be perplexed, Kalamas, fitting for you to be in doubt. . . . Come, Kalamas, do not go by oral tradition, by lineage of teaching, by hearsay, by a collection of scriptures, by logical reasoning, by inferential reasoning. . . . But when, Kalamas, you know for yourselves: ‘These things are unwholesome; these things are blameworthy; these things are censured by the wise; these things, if accepted and undertaken, lead to harm and suffering,’ then you should abandon them. . . . “[W]hen you know for yourselves: ‘These things are wholesome; these things are blameless; these
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