- 6 Contenporary Teachers
- Karma
- Samsara
- Moksha
- Info on the 6 teachers are only concluded in the Upanishads period
- Refer to DN 2 Samannaphala Sutta for more info
- Makkali Ghosala, Purana Kassapa and Pakuda Kaccayana are all Ajivakas
- Makkali Ghosala
- Sudda Caste
- Teach niyati
- Determnism
- Fatalist
- Everything occurs by chance and fate
- No cause and condition
- Ahetukavada
- No Kammic result
- No human effort for spiritual practice
- No reason to do so
- Subscribes to "akiriyavada" -> non action
- Humans and beings should live out their lives for 84 Maha Kalpas like a ball of thread that unwinds to in the end gain moksha
- The Buddha criticises him as the worst of al teachers
- Makkali Ghosala claima to have psychic powers
- Was once with Nigantha Nataputta but split away because of fundamental doctrinal reasons
- Purana Kassapa
- Same as Makkali Ghosala
- Sudda Caste
- More of a ahetukavada
- Amoralist
- Nothing was said about his idea of liberation
- Pakuda Kaccayana
- Brahmin Caste
- Atomist
- In beings there are 7 elements
- Pathavi (Earth)
- Apo (Water)
- Tejo (Heat)
- Vayo (Wind)
- Sukha
- Dukkha
- Life principle a.k.a. soul
- Body is indestructable and is permanent
- It is all that is a process that every being is going through
- Nothing really happens
- No cause and conditions
- No need to do anything to gain liberation
- Ajita Kesakambali
- Buddha said that he is dirty and smelly if his hair is not washed clean
- Believe that there are the 4 Maha Bhutas in a being
- There is no existence of the after-life
- Ucchedavadin
- 10 Wrong Views
- There is no need for spiritual development
- Lead life to the fullest in sense indulgement
- Materialist
- Nigantha Nataputta
- Extrene ahimsa
- 4 fold restraint
- Strainer, broom, mouth mask
- Karma stains jiva / atta / atman
- Not to perform bad karma
- Because of bad past karma, thus perform extreme self mortification
- He is a kiriyavadin and also an akiriyavadin
- In buddhism, we stress on mental intention as Karma
- In Jainism, Nigantha Nataputta stress on all intentional and unintentional bodity action as Karma
- View the soul that reaches he heavens to enjoy the bliss as nirvana
- Sanjaya Belathaputta
- Intellectual Teacher or an Idiotic Fool
- Sariputta and Moggallana were once his students
- No commitment to any statement put to him
- Skeptic
- We may infer self-indulgence
- Al teachers are akiriyavadins except Nigantha Nataputta and Sanjaya Belathaputta
Sunday, 18 March 2012
GAQ BC 102 - 18th March 2012 (Sunday)
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