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**Illirmpipse** · 01-31-2012, 04:28 PM

1. During the first watch of the night, he directed his mind to his "past lives" (or "past abodes", in an alternate translation). There is argument as to what this means. I go with the simplest explanation, i.e. that it means literal past lives in the round of rebirths.

hello Lazy Eye

the famous Theravadin scholar Buddhaghosa, in his Vissuddhimagga, interpretated this verse to mean "past becomings"

in Pali, "becoming" is a mental outflow (asava), together with the asava of sensuality and the asava of ignorance

thus, an alternative explanation is on each occassion in a life a mind believes "I am this", "this is mine", etc, this is one becoming

kind regards

01-31-2012, 04:28 PM	#13
Illirmpipse Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 427 Senior Member	1. During the first watch of the night, he directed his mind to his "past lives" (or "past abodes", in an alternate translation). There is argument as to what this means. I go with the simplest explanation, i.e. that it means literal past lives in the round of rebirths. hello Lazy Eye the famous Theravadin scholar Buddhaghosa, in his Vissuddhimagga, interpretated this verse to mean "past becomings" in Pali, "becoming" is a mental outflow (asava), together with the asava of sensuality and the asava of ignorance thus, an alternative explanation is on each occassion in a life a mind believes "I am this", "this is mine", etc, this is one becoming kind regards
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