reincarnation, page-156

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    In the Payasi Sutta of the Long Discourses of the Buddha one of of the Lord Buddha's enlightened follows had a debate with Price Payasi because....

    "This Prince Payasi, as it turned out, was infected with a corrupted view – he believed, "There is no life beyond death, no world beyond our own. There are no angels or demons. Good and evil actions do not have consequences.""

    Who does this sound like?

    In the Prince's case, after the admonition, he said, ""Such words… Venerable, nay, Holy Arahant Kumara-Kassapa, your words touch me, and your parables have shown me that I am using foolish means to try to find the truth. It is as if you set upright that which had been toppled. I came today to hear your quick witted replies, because I wanted sport in the field of debate, but today I shall leave having learned something very valuable – as if traveling and suddenly finding a hidden diamond. You expound your teachings and make them easy to hear, easy to understand, and what you say indeed makes sense."

    After death (the sutta goes on to say), the Price was reborn into a deva realm (the empty mansion of the Four Great Kings.
 
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