Academic | Sutta Name | Notes | PSA Plae | Vagga | Nikaya | PTS | Keywords |
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AN.IV.77 | Acintita Sutta | The Buddha enumerates the four issues unfathomable by conceptual thinking: 1. the powers of the Buddha [buddhavisaaya] -- i.e., the range of powers a Buddha develops as a result of becoming a Buddha; 2. the powers developed through the absorptions [~naa.navisaaya] -- i.e., the range of powers that one may obtain while absorbed in jhana; 3. the outcome or the retribution of our actions -- i.e. the precise working out of the results of kamma, and; 4. philosophical analysis of the nature of the world -- i.e. conjecture about (the origin, etc., of) the world. To waste time with such conjecture will bring madness & vexation to those who indulge. |
35/235 | Catukanipaata Dutiya Pa.n.naasaka | A"nguttara | A.ii. |