SV: Re: [Pali] searching for passage in Tipitaka

--- "Dmytro O. Ivakhnenko" <aavuso@...> skrev:

> Hello Ray,
>
> > I remember reading a passage in the Tipitaka -- in
> the PTS English
> > translation-- where the Buddha states that were
> one to maintain that
> > effects in this life are due to causes or kamma in
> a previous life,
> > this view is false. But I cannot remember where
> that passage is;
> > would any of you know?
>
> Probably you mean MN 101
>

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/majjhima/mn-101-tb0.html

Which says, if I understand it correctly, not that it
is a mistake "to maintain that effects in this life
are due to causes or kamma in a previous life", only
to maintain that *all* effects in this life are due to
causes or kamma in a previous life; quite an important
difference.

Gunnar