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206 20. THE WORKING OF KAMMA Upaghátaka kamma (destructive kamma). Every subsequent birth, according to Buddhism, is conditione ...

INDEFINITELY EFFECTIVE KAMMA: 207 The following classification is according to the priority of effect (vipákadánavasena): Garuk ...

208 20. THE WORKING OF KAMMA Habits whether good or bad become second nature. They more or less tend to mould the character of a ...

EVIL ACTIONS THAT MAY RIPEN IN THE SENSE SPHERE 209 The following five conditions are necessary to complete the evil of killing: ...

210 20. THE WORKING OF KAMMA The inevitable consequences of frivolous talk are defective bodily organs and incredible speech. Tw ...

GOOD KAMMA THAT MAY RIPEN IN THE SENSE SPHERE 211 Good Kamma That May Ripen in the Sense Sphere There are ten kinds of such meri ...

212 20. THE WORKING OF KAMMA ii. The second jhána moral consciousness which consists of sustained application, pleasurable inter ...

213 CHAPTER 21 NATURE OF KAMMA “As you sow the seed so shall you reap the fruit.” — Saíyutta Nikáya i s one bound to reap all t ...

214 21. NATURE OF KAMMA Ambapáli, a courtesan, purified her character and attained arahant- ship. Asoka, who was stigmatised as ...

CAUSE OF ADVERSE RESULTS 215 ial misdeed, yet he expiates it in his present life. Not even a small effect manifests itself (afte ...

216 21. NATURE OF KAMMA deed, he was reborn seven times in heavenly blissful states. And by the residual result of that same act ...

BENEFICENT AND MALEFICENT FORCES 217 gious and social deeds. Owing to his good reproductive kamma he was born in a heavenly blis ...

218 21. NATURE OF KAMMA When ship-wrecked in deep sea, the Bodhisatta Mahá Jánaka made a great effort to save himself, while the ...

BENEFICENT AND MALEFICENT FORCES 219 Says the Buddha, Man’s merits and the sins he here hath wrought:  That is the thing he own ...

220 CHAPTER 22 WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF LIFE? “Inconceivable is the beginning, O disciples, of this faring on. The earli- est point ...

REBIRTH IS NOT TRANSMIGRATION OR REINCARNATION 221 opinion of some the conception of a first cause is as ridiculous as a round t ...

222 22. WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF LIFE? benevolent and just, in any intelligible sense of the words, than that he is malevolent and ...

REBIRTH IS NOT TRANSMIGRATION OR REINCARNATION 223 present a tendency to substitute this personal God by an impersonal God. Volt ...

224 22. WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF LIFE? elucidate these questions to me, then I will lead the holy life under him. If he will not, t ...

REBIRTH IS NOT TRANSMIGRATION OR REINCARNATION 225 According to Buddhism, we are born from the matrix of action (kam- mayoni). P ...