(Order of Monks)
1
, nor did he want the
Sangha
to depend
on him. He said that there was no esoteric doctrine in his teaching,
nothing hidden in the 'closed-fist of the teacher'
(acarija-mutthi),
or
to put it in other words, there never was anything 'up his sleeve'.
2
T h e freedom of thought allowed by the Buddha is unheard of
elsewhere in the history of religions. This freedom is necessary
because, according to the Buddha, man's emancipation depends
on his own realization of Truth, and not on the benevolent grace of
a god or any external power as a reward for his obedient good
behaviour.
T h e Buddha once visited a small town called Kesaputta in the
kingdom of Kosala. T h e inhabitants of this town were known by
the common name Kalama. When they heard that the Buddha was
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