Questions of King Milinda Part 02

Author(s): T W Rhys Davids
Publisher: Oxford

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xxiv QUESTIONS AND PUZZLES OF MILINDA THE KING.
d. Those who hold that while the bodily forms are
not eternal, there is a subtle something, called
Heart or Mind, or Consciousness, which is. 9-12. ANTÂNTIKÂ. People who chop logic about finity
and infinity. a. Those who hold the world to be finite. 6. Those who hold it to be infinite. C. Those who hold it to be both.
d. Those who hold it to be neither. 13-16. AMARA-VIKKHEPIKÂ. People who equivocate about
virtue and vicea. From the fear that if they express a decided opinion
grief at possible mistake will injure them. b. That they may form attachments which will injure
them. c. That they may be unable to answer skilful dis
putants. d. From dullness and stupidity. 17, 18. ADHIKKA-SAMUPPANIKÂ. People who think that
the origin of things can be explained without
a cause. 19-50. UDDHAMA-ÂGHATANIKÂ. People who believe in
the future existence of human souls. a. Sixteen different phases of the hypothesis of a
conscious existence after death. 6. Eight different phases of the hypothesis of an
unconscious existence after death. c. Eight different phases of the hypothesis of an
existence between consciousness and unconscious
ness after death. 51-57. UKKHEDA-VÂDÂ. People who teach the doctrine
that there is a soul, but that it will cease to exist on the death of the body here, or at the end of a next life, or of further lives in higher and ever
higher states of being. 58-62. DITTHA-DHAMMIKA-NIBBÂNA-VÂDÂ. People who
hold that there is a soul, and that it can attain to perfect bliss in this present world, or in whatever world it happens to be
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