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386 43. EIGHT WORLDLY CONDITIONS (AÞ Þ HALOKADHAMMÁ) When a mother was questioned why she did not weep over the tragic death of ...

LIFE’S PROBLEMS 387 CHAPTER 44 APPENDIX 44 THE PROBLEMS OF LIFE 387 W ho? Whence? Whither? Why? What? are some important prob- ...

388 extension preponderates in earth; cohesion, in water; heat, in fire; and motion, in air. Thus, matter consists of forces and ...

LIFE’S PROBLEMS 389 successor. Every fresh consciousness therefore consists of the potentialities of its predecessors and someth ...

390 44. THE PROBLEMS OF LIFE rebirth-consciousness or relinking-consciousness (paþisandhi viññáóa), is conditioned by past kamma ...

LIFE’S PROBLEMS 391 mental phenomena and the phenomenon of life in an already extant physical phenomenon, to complete the trio t ...

392 44. THE PROBLEMS OF LIFE present world alone is real. The so-called eternal heaven and hell are the inventions of imposters. ...

LIFE’S PROBLEMS 393 Past kamma conditions the present birth; and present kamma, in com- bination with past kamma, conditions the ...

394 44. THE PROBLEMS OF LIFE reality. Death is the end of life. Religion is a foolish aberration, a mental disease. There was a ...

LIFE’S PROBLEMS 395 existence of rabies. How does one account for the problem of evil? Are earthquakes, floods, pestilences, and ...

396 44. THE PROBLEMS OF LIFE tainly use his free will and act as he likes. A stone, on the contrary, is not free to do so of its ...

397 APPENDIX MAÒGALA SUTTA^1 – Blessings Thus have I heard: On one occasion the Exalted One was dwelling at the mon- astery of A ...

398 APPENDIX To reside in a suitable locality,^6 to have done meritorious actions in the past, and to set oneself in the right ...

PARÁBHAVA SUTTA – DOWNFALL 399 To them, fulfilling matters such as these,^17 everywhere invincible, in every way moving happily ...

400 APPENDIX This then we learn is the third cause of one's downfall. Pray, O Exalted One, tell us the fourth cause of one's do ...

VASALA SUTTA – OUTCAST 401 He who, of slender means, but vast ambition, of warrior birth, aspires to sovereignty: this is the c ...

402 APPENDIX The man who is irritable, rancorous, vicious, detractive,^22 per- verted in views, and deceitful: know him as an o ...

VASALA SUTTA – OUTCAST 403 Whosoever, having gone to another's house, and partaken of choice food, does not honour him in retur ...

404 APPENDIX Know it as such by this^30 illustration: There was the son of an out- cast, known as Mátanga, a “dog-cooker.”^31 T ...

RATANA SUTTA – JEWELS 405 me as a follower who has taken refuge from this very day to life’s end.”  RATANA SUTTA — Jewels The c ...