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DHAMMA-KAKKA-PPAVATTANA-SUTTA.
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'This then, O Bhikkhus, is the noble truth concerning the origin of suffering.
7. 'Now this, O Bhikkhus, is the noble truth concerning the destruction of suffering.
'Verily, it is the destruction, in which no passion remains, of this very thirst; the laying aside of, the getting rid of, the being free from, the harbouring no longer of this thirst.
'This then, O Bhikkhus, is the noble truth concerning the destruction of suffering.
8. Now this, O Bhikkhus, is the noble truth concerning the way1 which leads to the destruction of sorrow. Verily! it is this noble eightfold path2; that is to say:
correspond very exactly to the first and third of these three tanhâs. 'The lust of the flesh, the lust of life, and the pride of life,' or 'the lust of the flesh, the lust of life, and the love of this present world,' would be not inadequate renderings of all three.
The last two are in Pâli bhava-tanhâ and vibhava-tanhâ, on which Childers, on the authority of Vigesinha, says: 'The former applies to the sassata-ditthi, and means a desire for an eternity of existence; the latter applies to the ukkheda-ditthi, and means a desire for annihilation in the very first (the present) form of existence.' Sassata-ditthi may be called the 'everlasting life heresy,' and ukkheda-ditthi the 'let-us-eat-and-drinkfor-to-morrow-we-die heresy.' These two heresies, thus implicitly condemned, have very close analogies to theism and materialism.
Spence Hardy says ('Manual of Buddhism,' p. 496): 'Bhawatanhâ signifies the pertinacious love of existence induced by the supposition that transmigatory existence is not only eternal, but felicitous and desirable. Wibhawa-tan hâ is the love of the present life, under the notion that existence will cease therewith, and that there is to be no future state.'
Vibhava in Sanskrit means, 1. development; 2. might, majesty, prosperity; and 3. property: but the technical Buddhist sense, as will be seen from the above, is something more than this.
1 Patipadâ.
Ariyo atangiko Maggo.
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| SR No. | 007674 |
| Book Title | Dhammapada |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Max Muller |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1881 |
| Total Pages | 2540 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 45 MB |