Cao dai

Head of one of the six heretical sects of the Buddha’s time. In the Sāmaññaphala Sutta (D.i.56). Ajātasattu is said to have visited him and obtained from him an exposition of his teaching, which was to the effect that the four elements — earth, fire, air, water; pleasure, pain, and the soul — these seven things were eternally existent and unchangeable in their very nature; that there is no volitional activity of consciousness in them. His doctrine is, therefore, one of non-action (akiriya vāda). When one, with a sharp sword, cleaves a head in two, no one is thereby deprived of life, a sword has merely penetrated the interval between seven elementary substances (cf. the doctrine of the Cartesians, that there is no sin in taking the life of lower animals because they have no soul). In other words, there is no such act as killing, or hearing, or knowing, etc; no conceptions of, or distinction between, good a

Bình xuyên

Pakudha kaccayana biography of barack trump

Biography of barack obama