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226 22. WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF LIFE? This life-stream flows ad infinitum, as long as it is fed with the muddy waters of ignorance ...

227 CHAPTER 23 THE BUDDHA ON THE SO-CALLED CREATOR-GOD “I count your Brahmá one th’ unjust among,  Who made a world in which to ...

228 23. THE BUDDHA ON THE SO-CALLED CREATOR-GOD naked ascetics must have been created by a wicked god (pápakena issarena), since ...

AN INCIDENT IN THE KEVAÐÐHA SUTTA 229 “On this, O disciples, that being who arose first becomes longer- lived, handsomer, and mo ...

230 CHAPTER 24 REASONS TO BELIEVE IN REBIRTH “I recalled my varied lot in former existences.” — Majjhima Nikáya h ow are we to ...

“I RECALLED MY FORMER EXISTENCES.” 231 cludes this discourse with the words: “This is my last birth. Now there is no more rebirt ...

232 24. REASONS TO BELIEVE IN REBIRTH pendent of the five senses, direct communication of thought and direct perception of other ...

“I RECALLED MY FORMER EXISTENCES.” 233 The Buddha attributed this sudden outburst of parental love to the fact that they had bee ...

234 24. REASONS TO BELIEVE IN REBIRTH United States, could read and write at the age of two, speak French, Rus- sian, English, G ...

WHAT DO KAMMA AND REBIRTH EXPLAIN? 235 which they could have no actual knowledge, why the work of the gen- ius invariably transc ...

236 24. REASONS TO BELIEVE IN REBIRTH Above all they account for the arising of omniscient, perfect spirit- ual teachers, like ...

237 CHAPTER 25 THE WHEEL OF LIFE (Paþicca Samuppáda) “No God, no Brahmá can be found, No matter of this wheel of life, Just ba ...

238 25. THE WHEEL OF LIFE (PAÞ ICCASAMUPPÁDA) “Ignorance is the deep delusion wherein we here so long are circling round,” 347 s ...

CONSCIOUSNESS DEPENDS UPON CONDITIONING ACTIVITIES 239 Ignorance is predominant in immoral activities, while it is latent in mor ...

240 25. THE WHEEL OF LIFE (PAÞ ICCASAMUPPÁDA) Náma here means the three aggregates—feeling (vedaná), perception (saññá) and ment ...

CONTACT DEPENDS ON THE SIX SENSE-BASES 241 The human machine is very simple in its beginning but very complex in its end. Ordina ...

242 25. THE WHEEL OF LIFE (PAÞ ICCASAMUPPÁDA) feeling is also termed upekkhá which may be indifference or equanimity. According ...

GRASPING DEPENDS ON CRAVING 243 Dependent on Craving is Grasping (upádána) Grasping is intense craving. Taóhá is like groping in ...

244 25. THE WHEEL OF LIFE (PAÞ ICCASAMUPPÁDA) Therefore it presupposes organs of sense which cannot exist without mind and body. ...

THE REVERSE ORDER OF THE PAÞICCA-SAMUPPÁDA 245 Thus does the cessation of this entire aggregate of suffering result. The first t ...