Buddhism: Partial Eternalism

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The Buddha about the Danger of depositing a Metaphysical

Absolute in a pure & transcendent form of Consciousness:

 

There are, monks, some ascetics and brahmins who arepartly Eternalists and partly Non-Eternalists, who proclaimthe partial eternity and the partial non-eternity of the self

and the world. On what grounds?Here, a certain ascetic or brahmin is a logician, a reasoner. hammering it out by reason, following his own line of thought,

he argues:

"Whatever is called eye or ear or nose or tongue or body,

that is impermanent, unstable, non-eternal, liable to change.

But what is called thought, mind or consciousness, that is a

self that is permanent, stable, eternal, not subject to change,

the same for ever and ever!”This, monks, the Tathagata understands; Such opinions thus

grasped and clung to will lead to such-and-such destination

in another world. This the Tathagata knows, and more, but

he is not attached to that knowledge.And being thus unattached he has experienced for himselfPerfect Peace, and having truly understood the arising andpassing away of feelings, their attraction & danger and thefinal escape from them, the Tathagata is released without remainder...

 

Source: Digha Nikaya DN 1 [i 22], The Supreme Net.

 

If succesfull, this wrong view nr 8 of 62 analyzed in DN 1 will

lead to rebirth in the formless realm of infinite consciousness...

Existence there lasts for 40.000 world-cycles! Then, after that,

one have to come back to human life to try to attain Nibbana !!!

What a truly immense Delay & Waste ...

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Bhikkhu Samāhita, Sri Lanka.

 

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