The Kalama Sutta presents a vision of the Buddha's teaching that goes against the grain of much Buddhist orthodoxy. Rather than deference to tradition and lineage, it celebrates self-reliance; rather than belief in doctrine, it stresses the importance of testing ideas to see if they work; and rather than insisting on a metaphysics of rebirth and karma, it suggests that this world might indeed be the only one there is.
---Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist - by Stephen Batchelor---
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