dn28:15.0 1.12. Eternalism
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dn28:15.1 And moreover, sir, how the Buddha teaches eternalist doctrines is unsurpassable.
dn28:15.2 There are these three eternalist doctrines.
dn28:15.3 Firstly, some ascetic or brahmin—by dint of keen, resolute, committed, and diligent effort, and right application of mind—experiences an immersion of the heart of such a kind that they recollect many hundreds of thousands of past lives,
dn28:15.4 with features and details.
dn28:15.5 They say,
dn28:15.6 ‘I know that in the past the cosmos expanded or contracted.
dn28:15.7 I don’t know whether in the future the cosmos will expand or contract.
dn28:15.8 The self and the cosmos are eternal, barren, steady as a mountain peak, standing firm like a pillar. They remain the same for all eternity, while these sentient beings wander and transmigrate and pass away and rearise.’
dn28:15.9 This is the first eternalist doctrine.
dn28:15.10 Furthermore, some ascetic or brahmin—by dint of keen, resolute, committed, and diligent effort, and right application of mind—experiences an immersion of the heart of such a kind that they recollect their past lives for as many as ten eons of the expansion and contraction of the cosmos,
dn28:15.11 with features and details.
dn28:15.12 They say,
dn28:15.13 ‘I know that in the past the cosmos expanded or contracted.
dn28:15.14 I don’t know whether in the future the cosmos will expand or contract.
dn28:15.15 The self and the cosmos are eternal, barren, steady as a mountain peak, standing firm like a pillar.
dn28:15.16 They remain the same for all eternity, while these sentient beings wander and transmigrate and pass away and rearise.’
dn28:15.17 This is the second eternalist doctrine.
dn28:15.18 Furthermore, some ascetic or brahmin—by dint of keen, resolute, committed, and diligent effort, and right application of mind—experiences an immersion of the heart of such a kind that they recollect their past lives for as many as forty eons of the expansion and contraction of the cosmos,
dn28:15.19 with features and details.
dn28:15.20 They say,
dn28:15.21 ‘I know that in the past the cosmos expanded or contracted.
dn28:15.22 I don’t know whether in the future the cosmos will expand or contract.
dn28:15.23 The self and the cosmos are eternal, barren, steady as a mountain peak, standing firm like a pillar.
dn28:15.24 They remain the same for all eternity, while these sentient beings wander and transmigrate and pass away and rearise.’
dn28:15.25 This is the third eternalist doctrine.
dn28:15.26 This is unsurpassable when it comes to eternalist doctrines.