Theravada Buddhism--Simple Guides by Diana St. Ruth

Author:Diana St. Ruth [Ruth, Diana St]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-85733-632-0
Publisher: Kuperard
Published: 2011-07-12T00:00:00+00:00

The Buddha Talks of Recalling His Own Previous Existences

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‘Thus, with the mind composed, quite purified, I directed my mind to the knowledge and recollection of former habitations. I remembered one birth, two, three, four, a hundred thousand births, and many an aeon of integration and many an aeon of disintegration and many an aeon of integration-disintegration; such a one was I by name, having such and such a clan, such and such a colour, so was I nourished, such and such pleasant and painful experiences were mine, so did the span of life end. Passing from this, I came to be in another state where such a one was I by name. Passing from this, I arose here. Thus I remember various former habitations in all their modes and detail.’

The Buddha, from the Majjhima-Nikaya

He also said he could see the course of other beings:

‘I comprehend that beings are mean, excellent, comely, ugly, well-going, ill-going, according to the consequences of their deeds, and I think, “Indeed these worthy beings who were possessed of wrong conduct in body, speech, thought, incurring deeds consequent on a wrong view – these, at the breaking up of the body after dying, have arisen in a sorrowful state. But these worthy beings who were possessed of good conduct in body, speech, thought, incurring deeds consequent on a right view – these, at the breaking up of the body after dying, have arisen in a good state.” ’

The Buddha, from the Majjhima-Nikaya

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