# Are some, or all of the unanswered questions from the suttas answered in the Abhidhamma and commentaries?

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Please search and read before talking about sensitive subjects. We talked about this before here:

> [@Venerable Channa ( suicide)](https://classicaltheravada.org/t/venerable-channa-suicide/1992):
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> Channa became an arahat after using the knife. The Book of the Six Sense Bases ) p. 1406 connected discourses bhikkhu bodhi 52 Spk: Channa replied to Sariputtas questions by ascribing arahantship to himself, but Sariputta, while knowing that he was still a worldling, just kept quiet. Mahacunda, however, gave him an exhortation to convince him of this. 53 This “teaching of the Blessed One” is at Ud 81,&10. Spk explains the connection between the teaching and the present situation thus: …

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