{"id":76,"date":"2025-11-26T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/2009\/12\/19\/kalama\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T23:21:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:21:33","slug":"kalama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/2025\/11\/26\/kalama\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">1. Do not believe in anything (simply ) because you have heard it.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">2. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">3. Do not believe in anything&nbsp; because&nbsp;&nbsp; it is spoken and rumoured by many.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">4. Do not believe in anything ( simply ) because it is found written in your religious books.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">5. Do not believe in anything merely&nbsp; on the authority of your teachers and elders.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">6. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is condusive to the good and benefit of one and all then accept it and live up to it.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">&nbsp;(The Buddha)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/dd>\n<dd>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 1. Do not believe in anything (simply ) because you have heard it. 2. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. 3. Do not believe in anything&nbsp; because&nbsp;&nbsp; it is spoken and rumoured by many. 4. Do not believe in anything ( simply ) because it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/2025\/11\/26\/kalama\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kalama<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,5,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dhamma-articles","category-dhamma","category-article-dhamma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1457,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/1457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}