Re: another question based on Digha Tika

Venerable Bhikkhu Pandita, Lance and all,
Op 31-mrt-2013, om 10:12 heeft Soe Naung het volgende geschreven:

> I think the same can be said about the difference between Buddhas and
> ordinary arahats. Even though they all have sense-sphere beautiful
> functional minds associated with knowledge, the mind of a Buddha 
> can bring
> all answers and facts he needs but that of an arahat does not have 
> such an
> ability.
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N: Absolutely. He became an omniscient Buddha at the Enlightenment 
tree and this knowledge is not shared by his disciples. I am not so 
uch inclined to think in terms of: this first, than that.
The Guide, Netti, no 594: <Herein, when omniscience was reached, when 
all ideas [dhammas] were found, when the spotless immaculate 
omniscient knowledge had arisen, when Maara was routed at the foot of 
the Tree of Enlightenment: that constitutes the Perfect One's tenth 
Power consisting in the Knowledge of Complete Extinction of all 
Taints. For the Enlightenmed Ones, the Blessed Ones, are possessed of 
ten powers.>

With respect,
Nina.




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