11. Question on Directly Knowing (MIL3.6.11)

Milinda’s Questions

Mindfulness Chapter

11. Question on Directly Knowing

The king asked:

“Venerable Nāgasena, does all mindfulness arise through knowing directly or does it come with outside help?”

“By knowing directly, your majesty, and with outside help.”

“If thus, Venerable Nāgasena, all mindfulness is from directly knowing, there is none with outside help.”

“If there were no mindfulness with outside help, your majesty, then artisans would have no need for practice, or craftsmanship, or schooling, and teachers would be useless, but since there is mindfulness with outside help, the opposite is true.”

“You are clever, Venerable Nāgasena!”

Question on Directly Knowing eleventh

Mindfulness Chapter sixth

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