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Doubt is overcome by asking those who Know!
The
brahmin
Māgandiya
once
asked the
Buddha
some subtle questions:
Question: How does quarrels and disputes arise?
Answer: From what is liked and beloved arise
quarrels and disputes.
Question: How
does these likes, longings and hopes emerge?
Answer: Likes, longings and hopes all have
desire as their origin.
Question: How
does this desire come into being?
Answer: Desire arises depending on pleasure and
pain.
Question: How does pleasure and pain then
appear?
Answer: Pleasure and pain arises depending on
contact.
Question: How does this event of contact
happen?
Answer: Contact arises dependent upon
name and
form.
Question: How does such sensed contact
completely cease?
Answer: When form has disappeared, contacts
cannot make contact....
Question: In which mental state does all forms
of form disappear?
Answer: In
neither-perception-nor-non-perception does all form disappear!
Question: Is this
state the supreme mental purity?
Answer: The state of quenching without
remaining clinging is the supreme!
The recluse does neither dispute that, nor does he renew any existence...
Sutta-Nipāta 862-877
Edited excerpt.

More on clearing Doubt-&-Uncertainty by
asking questions:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Noble_Purpose.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Sakkas_Question.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Who_is_the_Creator.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Questions_to_the_Boy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Investigation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Neither_Agent_nor_Actor.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Fixed_Destiny_or_Free_Will.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Curing_Doubt_and_Uncertainty.htm
Questions
and Answers...
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