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**osteoftex** · 12-06-2011, 05:24 PM

But if there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily. (Anguttara Nikaya 111:65)

Stephen Batchelor....

Anguttara Nikaya 111:65 (the Kalama Sutta) offers a number of views and not solely the single view Stephen has chosen to emphasise

the Buddha taught in ways to encourage whatever wholesome view was suitable for the individual

imo

kind regards

12-06-2011, 05:24 PM	#24
osteoftex Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 542 Senior Member	But if there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily. (Anguttara Nikaya 111:65) Stephen Batchelor.... Anguttara Nikaya 111:65 (the Kalama Sutta) offers a number of views and not solely the single view Stephen has chosen to emphasise the Buddha taught in ways to encourage whatever wholesome view was suitable for the individual imo kind regards
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