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Page 5. Buddha tells us that the coming into being of the linking consciousness (Pati sandhi-vinnana) is dependent upon the passing away of another consciousness in a past birth, and that the process of coming into being and passing away is the result of the powerful force known as kamma.
Page 10. The multifarious forms are merely the manifestation of kamma force.
It is common to say after witnessing an out-break of passion or sensuality in a person whom we deemed characterized by a high moral standard, “How could he have committed such an act, or followed such a conduct ? " It was not the least like what he appeared to others and probably to himself." What did it denote? It denoted, Buddhists say, part' at any rate of what he really was, a hidden but true aspect of his actual self, or in other words his karinic tendencies.”
Page 15. “By death is here meant, according to the abhidhamma, the ceasing of psychic life of one's individual existence, or to express it in the words of a western philosopher, the temporary end of a temporary phenomenon of the so-called being, for, although the organic life has ceased, the force which hither-to actuated it, is not destroyed. As the kammic force remains entirely undisturbed by the dis-integration of the fleeting body, the passing away of the present consciousness only conditions a fresh one in another birth."
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