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Those who have studied the life of the Buddha may recall his reflections shortly after the Enlightenment, when he had not yet begun to expound the teaching. At that time, the Buddha was reluctant to teach, as is related in the Scriptures: "Monks, the thought arose in me thus: 'This truth which I have realized is ~rofound, difficult to see, abstruse, calming, subtle, not attainable through mere sophisticated logic. "'But beings revel in attachment, take pleasure in attachment and delight in attachment. For beings who thus revel, take pleasure and delight in attachment, this is an extremely difficult thing to see: that is, the law of c~nditionalit~, the principle of Dependent Origination. Moreover, this also is an extremely difficult thing to see: the calming of all conditioning, the casting off of all clinging, the abandoning of desire, dispassion, cessation, Nibbzinu. If I were to give this teaching and my words were not understood, that would simply make for weariness and diffic~lt
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Hume defines a miracle as a violation of a law of nature, which is fine. It sounds pretty on point. But Hume assumes that the laws of nature are the highest and ultimate cause of all things.
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