Q35. Where can we meet awakened people?

~ By Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu ~

We must find arahant in the end of the defilements. Don’t go searching for them in forests, in monasteries, in caves, on mountains, in villages, in cities, or in meditation centers. You can look for arahant in the ending of the defilements.

Carrying out whatever tests, investigations, or experiments will prove to you the end of the defilements. If this isn’t possible, there’s no need to search, no need to seek. You will know for yourself, that’s all.

Where there is extinction of the defilements, there is arahant.

(From “Buddha-Dhamma for Inquiring Minds”)

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Buddha-Dhamma for Students (title of original translation) was composed of two talks given by Ajahn Buddhadāsa in January 1966 to students at Thammasat University, Bangkok. It was translated from the Thai by Rod Bucknell, and revised in 2018 by Santikaro Upasaka. To read/download as free ebook (pdf).

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