Exploring the Next Life and Rebirth : หน้า 24/130
ภพนี้ ภพหน้า ฉบับเติมเต็ม : หน้า 24/130 An insightful dialogue on the concepts of pleasure, rebirth, and spiritual existence in relation to human nature.
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สรุปเนื้อหา
In this text, Master Kassapa discusses the transient pleasures of life and contrasts them with the inherent nature of human existence. Through dialogue, he illustrates the repulsive aspects of humanity in the eyes of the divine, prompting reflection on the significance of moral deeds and the essence of the afterlife. The parable serves as a reminder that there’s a brighter existence awaiting those who live righteously. As the chieftain is led to contemplate the foulness of the mire, he realizes the greater truth of rebirth and the pursuit of a better next life, reaffirmed by the lessons of those who have experienced it.
หัวข้อประเด็น
-The concept of rebirth
-The nature of human existence
-Perceptions of pleasure and morality
-Spiritual insight
-Divine perspectives on humanity
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This Life Next Life
And they were to do so. And you were to say to them : -
" Well, masters, take him up on to the palace and amuse him with the pleasures of the five senses. "
And they were to do so. Now what think you, O chieftain? Would this man, well bathed, well anointed, shaved and combed, dressed, wreathed and adorned, clad in clean raiment, taken to the upper palace, and indulging in, surrounded by, treated to, the five pleasures of sense, be desirous of being plunged once more into that pit of mire? '
' No indeed, Master Kassapa. '
' And why? '
' Foul, Master Kassapa, is a pit of mire, foul and counted as such, stinking, disgusting, repulsive, and counted as such. '
' Even so, Prince, are human beings in the eyes of the gods, foul and counted as such, stinking, disgusting, repulsive, and counted as such. The smell of man offends the gods a hundred leagues away. What then? Shall your friends and companions, your kinsmen and conneXions who, having kept the precepts, are reborn into the bright and happy place, come and bring you word that there is another world, that there is rebirth other than by parentage, that there is fruit and result of deeds well - done and ill - done? Let this exposition, chieftain, be evidence to you that these things exist. '
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