mn95:14.1 “The brahmins don’t just honor this because of faith, but also because of oral transmission.”
mn95:14.2 “First you relied on faith, now you speak of oral transmission.
mn95:14.3 These five things can be seen to turn out in two different ways in this very life.
mn95:14.4 What five?
mn95:14.5 Faith, endorsement, oral transmission, reasoned train of thought, and acceptance of a view after deliberation.
mn95:14.7 Even though you have full faith in something, it may be vacuous, hollow, and false.
mn95:14.8 And even if you don’t have full faith in something, it may be true and real, not otherwise.
mn95:14.9 Even though you fully endorse something …
mn95:14.10 something may be well transmitted …
mn95:14.11 something may be well thought out …
mn95:14.12 something may be well deliberated, it may be vacuous, hollow, and false.
mn95:14.13 And even if something is not well deliberated, it may be true and real, not otherwise.
mn95:14.14 For a sensible person who is preserving truth this is not sufficient to come to the categorical conclusion:
mn95:14.15 ‘This is the only truth, anything else is futile.’”