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**Katoabralia** · 09-19-2011, 07:30 AM

Introduction:

Question 1: What is meant by the sentence "for the sustenance of beings born and for the support of beings seeking birth"?

There are, O monks, four nutriments for the sustenance of beings born and for the support of beings seeking birth. What are the four?

Edible food, coarse and fine; secondly, sense-impression; thirdly, volitional thought; fourthly, consciousness.

Puttamansa Sutta: A Son's Flesh

09-19-2011, 07:30 AM	#2
Katoabralia Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 403 Senior Member	Introduction: Question 1: What is meant by the sentence "for the sustenance of beings born and for the support of beings seeking birth"? There are, O monks, four nutriments for the sustenance of beings born and for the support of beings seeking birth. What are the four? Edible food, coarse and fine; secondly, sense-impression; thirdly, volitional thought; fourthly, consciousness. Puttamansa Sutta: A Son's Flesh
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