How do We Learn? MN 95

MN 95 With Canki – Canki Sutta The Buddha shows the difference between preserving the truth (out of faith), discovering the truth (out of direct experience through practice), and the arrival at truth. How can we know what’s true? This is the “Canki Sutta” MN 95 from Bhikkhu Bodhi’s translation of the Majjhima Nikaya -courtesy Wisdom Publications. In this talk the Buddha addresses monks of other sects and their questions as to what they believe. What is true? Are the Vedas to be believed? How are any teachings to be understood and verified. This is a deep sutta into the meaning of the origination of true knowledge and how it is learned and verified. Bhante Vimalaramsi is an American Buddhist Monk of 35 years with a unique perspective of what the Buddha taught. After learning and practicing the techniques of many other advanced teachers in the world he decided he must go back to the original teachings of the Buddha as recited and written down in the Tripitaka itself. This is what he learned.