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246 25. THE WHEEL OF LIFE (PAÞ ICCASAMUPPÁDA) DIAGRAM 4: The Wheel of Life ...

1  2   Ignorance avijjá Volitional  Activities Saòkhárá Craving Taóhá Attachment upádána Action (Kamma) Bhava Past caus ...

248 CHAPTER 26 MODES OF BIRTH AND DEATH “Again, again the slow wits seek rebirth, Again, again comes birth and dying comes, Ag ...

KAMMIC ENERGY 249 past is capable of nullifying the potential energy of the last thought- process, and may thus destroy the psyc ...

250 CHAPTER 27 PLANES OF EXISTENCE “Not to be reached by going is world’s end.” — Aòguttara Nikáya a ccording to Buddhism the e ...

PLANES 251 It is one’s kamma that determines the nature of one’s material form which varies according to the skilfulness or unsk ...

252 27. PLANES OF EXISTENCE Manussa—the realm of human beings.^357 The human realm is a mixture of both pain and happiness. Bod ...

PLANES 253 These six celestial planes are temporary blissful abodes where beings are supposed to live enjoying fleeting pleasure ...

254 27. PLANES OF EXISTENCE plane; those who have developed the second and third jhánas are born in the second plane; those who ...

PLANES 255 It should be remarked that the Buddha did not attempt to expound any cosmological theory. The essence of the Buddha’s ...

DIAGRAM 6: The Planes of Existence THE AGE LIMIT ARÚPALOKA FORMLESS REALMS Sphere of Neither Perception nor Non-perception Sphe ...

257 CHAPTER 28 HOW REBIRTH TAKES PLACE The pile of bones of (all the bodies of) one man  Who has alone one aeon lived  Would m ...

258 28. HOW REBIRTH TAKES PLACE monitory visions 361 of destiny may be fire, forests, mountainous regions, a mother’s womb, cele ...

REBIRTH 259 The passing away of the consciousness of the past birth is the occa- sion for the arising of the new consciousness i ...

260 28. HOW REBIRTH TAKES PLACE but the current remains and the light may be reproduced in another bulb. In the same way, the ka ...

261 “Which of these two, O King, did you think the more slowly and which the more quickly?” “Both equally quickly, Venerable Sir ...

262 CHAPTER 29 WHAT IS IT THAT IS REBORN? (NO-SOUL) Neither the same nor yet another. — isuddhimaggaV a part from mind and matt ...

“NEITHER THE SAME NOR YET ANOTHER” 263 visible entity’ cannot be involved in the corruption of death—is based on an entirely err ...

264 29. WHAT IS IT THAT IS REBORN? (NO-SOUL) Bishop Berkeley, who showed that this so-called atom was a meta- physical fiction, ...

“NEITHER THE SAME NOR YET ANOTHER” 265 He concludes his interesting chapter on the soul with the words: “And in this book the pr ...