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https://en.wikipedia.

org/wiki/Fetter_(Buddhism)#Three_fetters

http://www.bosquetheravada.org/index.php?
option=com_k2&view=item&layout=item&id=2754&Itemid=2396

http://fakebuddhaquotes.com/there-is-nothing-more-dreadful-than-
the-habit-of-doubt-doubt-separates-people/

There’s nothing “wrong” with the quote except for the attribution. The
Buddha did regard doubt (vicikicchā) as a dreadful “habit.” It’s one of
the five hindrances to meditation. It’s one of the first threefetters that
hold us back from stream entry, the first level of awakening. And it’s
one of the seven anusayas, or “underlying tendencies.”

The mind that is full of doubt is compared to a pot of muddy water:


“Imagine a bowl of water, agitated, stirred up muddied, put in
a dark place. If a man with good eyesight were to look at the
reflection of his own face in it, he would not know or see it as it
really was. In the same way, Brahman, when a man dwells with
his heart possessed and overwhelmed by doubt-and-wavering…
then he cannot know or see, as it really is, what is to his own
profit, to the profit of others, to the profit of both. Then even
sacred words he has long studied are not clear to him, not to
mention those he has not studied.”
The opposite quality to doubt, as Goddard’s words make clear, is faith,
or saddha, which is a form of confidence rather than blind belief.

http://thubtenchodron.org/2011/02/skeptic-thought/

http://buddhaweekly.com/video-purification-obstacles-dharma-practice-doubt-fear-
restlessness-buddhist-ngondro-foundation-teachings-part-3-teaching-venerable-acharya-
zasep-tulku-ri/

https://www.rigpa.org/en/teachings/extracts-of-articles-and-publications/more-articles-and-
publications-/faith-devotion-and-wisdom.html

http://buddhism.about.com/od/basicbuddhistteachings/a/faithdoubt.htm

http://www.bosquetheravada.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=629:an-366-
kesamutti-sutta-kalama-sutta-discurso-a-los-kalamas-de-kesamutti
http://buddhism.about.com/od/Living-A-Buddhist-Life/fl/The-Faith-of-Buddhism.htm

http://dharmawisdom.org/teachings/articles/lost-doubt

http://www.lionsroar.com/the-issue-of-faith-in-a-non-theistic-religion/

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