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**Fsfkkkjz** · 08-21-2012, 02:45 AM

But I've heard some cultures like to place Asura's before human on this scale. Have you ever heard of that ? How semi gods could be placed between animals and humans ?

hi BlueFaky

this is common because some cultures include the Asura realm as a woeful state. for example, in Thailand:

What is the meaning of the Four Woeful States?

THE FIRST OF the Four Woeful States is hell. Hell is anxiety (in Thai, literally “a hot heart”).

Now rebirth in the realm of beasts is stupidity.

The third Woeful State is the condition of a peta, a ghost that is chronically hungry because his desires continually outrun the supply of goods.

The last Woeful State is the realm of the asuras (cowardly demons). First to explain the word asura: sura means “brave”, a means “not”, thus asura means “not brave” or “cowardly”. Take it that whenever one is cowardly without reason, one has been spontaneously reborn an asura. Being afraid of harmless little lizards, millipedes or earthworms is unjustiﬁed fear and a form of suﬀering. To be afraid unnecessarily, or to be afraid of something as a result of pondering too much on it, is to be reborn as an asura.

http://www.dhammatalks.net/Books5/Bu...y_Students.pdf

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Fsfkkkjz Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 443 Senior Member	But I've heard some cultures like to place Asura's before human on this scale. Have you ever heard of that ? How semi gods could be placed between animals and humans ? hi BlueFaky this is common because some cultures include the Asura realm as a woeful state. for example, in Thailand: What is the meaning of the Four Woeful States? THE FIRST OF the Four Woeful States is hell. Hell is anxiety (in Thai, literally “a hot heart”). Now rebirth in the realm of beasts is stupidity. The third Woeful State is the condition of a peta, a ghost that is chronically hungry because his desires continually outrun the supply of goods. The last Woeful State is the realm of the asuras (cowardly demons). First to explain the word asura: sura means “brave”, a means “not”, thus asura means “not brave” or “cowardly”. Take it that whenever one is cowardly without reason, one has been spontaneously reborn an asura. Being afraid of harmless little lizards, millipedes or earthworms is unjustiﬁed fear and a form of suﬀering. To be afraid unnecessarily, or to be afraid of something as a result of pondering too much on it, is to be reborn as an asura. http://www.dhammatalks.net/Books5/Bu...y_Students.pdf
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