Sunday, 4 May 2014

PASCAL WAGER, KALAMAS BD SUTTRA

[To quote from the Buddha's wager, in that sutta the Buddha tells the Kalamas that his "noble disciples" acquire four assurances in the here and now. The first two of these assurances are:
  1. If there is a world after death, if there is the fruit of actions rightly and wrongly done, then this is the basis by which, with the break-up of the body, after death, I will reappear in a good destination, the heavenly world.
  2. But if there is no world after death, if there is no fruit of actions rightly and wrongly done, then here in the present life I look after myself with ease — free from hostility, free from ill will, free from trouble.
WBM

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