146. Also it is admitted that vinnana cannot be
disentangled and sharply distinguished from feeling and sensation. See
passages quoted in Mrs Rhys Davids, _Buddhist Psychology,_ pp. 52-54.]
[Footnote 419: Sam. Nik. XXII. 22. 1.]
[Footnote 420: With reference to a teacher dhamma is the doctrine which
he preaches. With reference to a disciple, it may often be equivalent to
duty. Cf. the Sanskrit expressions: sva-dharma, one's own duty;
para-dharma, the duty of another person or caste.]
[Footnote 421: Dhamma-s. 1044-5.]
[Footnote 422: II. 3. 8.]
[Footnote 423: Dig. Nik. XI. 85.]
[Footnote 424: Name and form is the Buddhist equivalent for subject and
object or mind and body.]
[Footnote 425: Mrs Rhys Davids, _Buddhist Psychology_, p. 39.]
[Footnote 426: Sam. Nik. xxxv. 93.]
[Footnote 427: The same formula is repeated for the other senses.]
[Footnote 428: See Maj. Nik. 36 for his own experiences and Dig. Nik. 2.
93-96.]
[Footnote 429: In Dig. Nik. xxiii. Payasi maintains the thesis, regarded
as most unusual (sec. 5), that there is no world but this and no such
things as rebirth and karma. He is confuted not by the Buddha but by
Kassapa. His arguments are that dead friends whom he has asked to bring
him news of the next world have not done so and that experiments
performed on criminals do not support the idea that a soul leaves the
body at death. Kassapa's reply is chiefly based on analogies of doubtful
value but also on the affirmation that those who have cultivated their
spiritual faculties have intuitive knowledge of rebirth and other
worlds. But Payasi did not draw any distinction between rebirth and
immortality as understood in Europe. He was a simple materialist.]
[Footnote 430: The more mythological parts of the Pitakas make it plain
that the early Buddhists were not materialists in the modern sense. It
is also said that there are formless worlds in which there is thought,
but no form or matter.]
[Footnote 431: See too the story of Godhika's death. Sam. Nik. I. iv. 3
and Buddhaghosa on Dhammap. 57.]
[Footnote 432: No. 38 called the Mahatanhasankhaya-suttam.]
[Footnote 433: See too Dig. Nik. n. 63, "If Vinnana did not descend into
the womb, would body and mind be constituted there?" and Sam. Nik. xii.
12. 3, "Vinnana food is the condition for bringing about rebirth in the
future."]
[Footnote 434: Uppajjati is the usual word.]
[Footnote 435: Ariyasaccani. Rhys Davids translates the p
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