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The society at the time of the Buddha was dominated by the Brahmin class. Their ideaology had the ritual of the fire sacrifice as the prototype of all meaningful or significant action. The distinction between ritual and act and ethics was minimal and the proposition was that the Brahmins were 'gods on earth' and as such were the only ones entitled to officiate in the various rites. The Sanskrit word for these rites/actions is karma and no Indian religion, Buddhism included, was ever to lose this idea of karma. The Buddha's most fundamental move was to declare karma as purely an ethical matter of thought word or deed and that the quality of the karma lay solely in the intention behind it. In effect he declared all rites and rituals as useless and pointless. see file z-projects/wheel-txt.txt ditto: file:///C:/aa-mine/Pali%20CD/a2insight/html/lib/bps/wheels/wheel147.html file:///C:/aa-mine/Pali%20CD/a2insight/html/lib/bps/wheels/wheel248.html file:///C:/aa-mine/Pali%20CD/a2insight/html/lib/bps/wheels/wheel301.html#con3 file:///C:/aa-mine/Pali%20CD/a2insight/html/lib/bps/wheels/wheel147.html#rim 31 planes of existance § |
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