Dear Piya and Paul,

effectively the sentence is saying "There is no cause and effect".

DN2, MN41, MN60, MN110, MN117, and several others contain this passage.


metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Piya Tan wrote:

this is the stock passage that define "wrong view".


> "There is nothing given, nothing offered, nothing sacrificed; no fruit or result of good and bad actions; no this world, no other world; no mother, no father; no beings who are reborn spontaneously; no good and virtuous recluses and brahmins in the world who have themselves realized by direct knowledge and declare this world and the other world."