About this episode

The episode discusses the questions that the Buddha deemed irrelevant to awakening and critiques Buddhism's departure from this advice.

People in this episode

Host: dave smith

Topics covered

• Buddhism
• spiritual awakening
• philosophy
• irrelevant questions
• Buddhist teachings

Keywords

• Buddha
• Buddhism
• awakening
• philosophy
• spirituality
• irrelevant questions
• teachings

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Organizations: Dave Smith Dharma

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