The undeclared questions · the arrow

Asked whether the cosmos is eternal, whether it is infinite, what happens to the awakened after death, the Buddha declined to answer — and the list of these avyākata is preserved as carefully as any teaching. A man shot with a poisoned arrow who refuses treatment until he is told the archer's caste, name, village and bow-string will die uninformed.

The most honest node in the pack, because it is an objection rather than a difference.