VENERABLE NĀRADA MAHĀTHERA

CHAPTER 17 THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS  “Light arose in me in things not heard before.” — DHAMMACAKKA SUTTA  Truth (Sacca) is that

CHAPTER 18 KAMMA “All living beings have Kamma as their own.” — MAJJHIMA NIKĀYA Kamma [1] is the law of moral causation.

CHAPTER 19 WHAT IS KAMMA? “Volition is Kamma.” — ANGUTTARA NIKĀYA Kamma The Pāli term Kamma, literally, means action or doing. Any

CHAPTER 20 THE WORKING OF KAMMA “By Kamma is this world led.” — ATTHASĀLINI The working of Kamma is an

CHAPTER 21: NATURE OF KAMMA “As you sow the seed so shall you reap the fruit.” — SAMYUTTA NIKA4YA Is one

CHAPTER 23 THE BUDDHA ON THE SO-CALLED CREATOR-GOD “I count your Brahma one th’ unjust among, Who made a world

CHAPTER 24 REASONS TO BELIEVE IN REBIRTH “I recalled my varied lot in former existences.” — MAJJHIMA NIKĀYA How are

CHAPTER 25 THE WHEEL OF LIFE – PATICCA-SAMUPPĀDA “No God no Brahma can be found, No matter of this wheel

CHAPTER 26 MODES OF BIRTH AND DEATH “Again, again the slow, wits seek rebirth, Again, again comes birth and dying

CHAPTER 27 PLANES OF EXISTENCE “Not to be reached by going is world’s end.” — ANGUTTARA NIKĀYA According to Buddhism

CHAPTER 28 HOW REBIRTH TAKES PLACE “The pile of bones of (all the bodies of) one man Who has alone

CHAPTER 29 WHAT IS IT THAT IS REBORN? (No-Soul) “Neither the same nor yet another.” — VISUDDHI MAGGA Apart from

CHAPTER 30 MORAL RESPONSIBILITY “By self is one defiled, By self is one purified.” — DHAMMAPADA  Is it the doer

CHAPTER 31 KAMMIC DESCENT AND KAMMIC ASCENT “Kamma differentiates beings into high and low states.” — MAJJHIMA NIKĀYA Is Kammic

CHAPTER 32 A NOTE ON THE DOCTRINE OF KAMMA AND REBIRTH IN THE WEST The Doctrine of Kamma and rebirth