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**Breeriacoirl** · 09-23-2011, 04:44 PM

From Ajahn Sucitto's "Kamma and the End of Kamma", page iv:

Variously translated as ‘formations,’ ‘volitional formations,’
‘fabrications’ (and more) I render sankhara as ‘programs and
patterns.’ Some of these programs are functions, such as
metabolism, that are bound up with the life-force (ayusankhara);
some are carried by the consciousness that is generated from
previous lives; and some are formed through this-life interactions. Did the Buddha actually teach this? Isn't Sucitto just repeating (rebirthing?) the bhikkhu Sati's heresy (MN 38) here?

What do you think?

09-23-2011, 04:44 PM	#1
Breeriacoirl Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 377 Senior Member	"the consciousness that is generated from previous lives" From Ajahn Sucitto's "Kamma and the End of Kamma", page iv: Variously translated as ‘formations,’ ‘volitional formations,’ ‘fabrications’ (and more) I render sankhara as ‘programs and patterns.’ Some of these programs are functions, such as metabolism, that are bound up with the life-force (ayusankhara); some are carried by the consciousness that is generated from previous lives; and some are formed through this-life interactions. Did the Buddha actually teach this? Isn't Sucitto just repeating (rebirthing?) the bhikkhu Sati's heresy (MN 38) here? What do you think?
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