The Buddha’s Questions That Led to Awakening.
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When you read the Buddha’s accounts of his own quest for awakening, it’s hard not to be struck by how many times he asked questions of himself, and how his quest was directed by his questions.
It started when he saw a problem: Here he was, subject to aging, illness, and death, and yet he was seeking happiness in things that were also subject to aging, illness, and death. He asked himself, “What if you were to seek happiness in things that didn’t die?” The question suggested a possibility he hadn’t thought of before. So, as he says, he went off in search of what was skillful. This shows that he already had some assumptions: that there was a way, a method of human action that would lead to the deathless, and he wanted to find the skillful means to get there.
Chapter 1. Original Question: “What is skillful?”
Chapter 2. If he hadn’t questioned that advice, we never would have had a Buddha.
Chapter 3. This is how awakening comes.
Conclusions
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