tiltbillings wrote:TMingyur wrote:
I think it's obvious. While Sylvester asserted that early Mahayana claimed aspiration to be the cause of non-stream entry I said that there are (is at least one) later Mahayana school(s) claiming re-appearance/re-birth being caused by aspiration although liberation has been attained.
Looking for a sutta that may be support for this view I found the one quoted where there is mention of re-appearance/re-birth caused by aspiration the individuals being qualified with "endowed with faith, virtues, learning, benevolence and wisdom."
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Thank you for the clarification. Please quote the whole of the passage you are referring to.
It is repeated nearly "endlessly" (in other translations than the one linked above) like a refrain which goes like this
`Bhikkhus, the bhikkhu is endowed with faith, virtues, learning, benevolence and wisdom. It occurs to the bhikkhu, O! I should be born with [location/environment where the aspiration is directed to] at the breakup of the body, after death. He bears it in the mind, directs thoughts to it, develops that thought. Those intentions and that abiding, developed and made much, conduces to be born there. This is the path and method to be born there.
This shows that the Buddha taught re-appearance/re-birth through aspiration. And the qualities are characterized as "endowed with faith, virtues, learning, benevolence and
wisdom." and they are
not characterized as "endowed with faith, virtues, learning, benevolence and
ignorance."
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