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266 29. WHAT IS IT THAT IS REBORN? (NO-SOUL) the element of extension preponderates in earth; cohesion, in water; heat, in fire; ...

“NEITHER THE SAME NOR YET ANOTHER” 267 Here occurs a juxtaposition of fleeting states of consciousness but not a superposition o ...

268 29. WHAT IS IT THAT IS REBORN? (NO-SOUL) Just as the arising of a physical state is conditioned by a preceding state as its ...

“NEITHER THE SAME NOR YET ANOTHER” 269 “O King, it is not this same mind and body that is born into the next existence, but with ...

270 29. WHAT IS IT THAT IS REBORN? (NO-SOUL) being is neither absolutely the same—since it has changed—nor totally different, be ...

271 CHAPTER 30 MORAL RESPONSIBILITY By self is one defiled, By self is one purified. — Dhp 165 i s it the doer of the act or a ...

272 30. MORAL RESPONSIBILITY Suppose a person was ‘A’ in his last birth, and is ‘B’ in this. With the death of ‘A’ the physical ...

273 CHAPTER 31 KAMMIC DESCENT AND KAMMIC ASCENT Kamma differentiates beings into high and low states. — Majjhima Nikáya i s kam ...

274 31. KAMMIC DESCENT AND KAMMIC ASCENT done such a thing? Who would have thought that he would commit such an act!” There is n ...

DESCENT AND ASCENT 275 Queen Malliká,^382 for example, led a good life, but as the result of experiencing an evil thought at her ...

276 31. KAMMIC DESCENT AND KAMMIC ASCENT producing its inevitable results. In its last moment the animal therefore may conceive ...

DESCENT AND ASCENT 277 “And thus have you for long time undergone sufferings, undergone torment, undergone misfortune, and fille ...

278 CHAPTER 32 THE DOCTRINE OF KAMMA AND REBIRTH IN THE WEST t he doctrine of kamma and rebirth is the keystone of the philoso- ...

HERODOTUS 279 Herodotus “The Egyptians propounded the theory that the human soul is imper- ishable, and that where the body of a ...

280 32. THE DOCTRINE OF KAMMA AND REBIRTH IN THE WEST “Taught already in the Vedas, as in all sacred books of India, metem- psyc ...

HUXLEY 281 Huxley “Like the doctrine of evolution itself, that of transmigration has its roots in the realm of reality. “Everyda ...

282 32. THE DOCTRINE OF KAMMA AND REBIRTH IN THE WEST grounds for supposing that we shall continue to exist after our exist- enc ...

PRE-EXISTENCE 283 Pre-Existence I laid me down upon the shore And dreamed a little space; I heard the great waves break and ro ...

284 CHAPTER 33 NIBBÁNA “Nibbána is bliss supreme.”  — Dhp vv. 203–204 n ibbána is the summum bonum of Buddhism. However clearly ...

DEFINITION OF NIBBÁNA 285 Definition The Pali word nibbána (Skt. nirvána) is composed of “ni(r)” and “vána.” Ni(r) is a negative ...