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The Views of Six Samana in the Pali Canon (based on the Sāmaññaphala Sutta) |
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| Question: "Is it possible to point out the fruit of the contemplative life, visible in the here and now?"1 | |
| samaṇa | view (diṭṭhi) |
| Pūraṇa Kassapa | Amoralism: denies any reward or punishment for either good or bad deeds. |
| Makkhali Gosāla | Fatalism: we are powerless; suffering is pre-destined. |
| Ajita Kesakambalī | Materialism: with death, all is annihilated. |
| Pakudha Kaccāyana | Eternalism: Matter, pleasure, pain and the soul are eternal and do not interact. |
| Nigaṇṭha Nātaputta | Restraint: be endowed with, cleansed by and suffused with the avoidance of all evil.2 |
| Sañjaya Belaṭṭhaputta | Agnosticism: "I don't think so. I don't think in that way or otherwise. I don't think not or not not." |
| Notes: | 1. DN 2 (Thanissaro, 1997; Walshe, 1995, pp. 91-109). 2. DN-a Ñāṇamoli & Bodhi, 1995, pp. 1258-59, n. 585). |
