Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c8.s6.t2.4

v1.c8.s6.t2.4

The opinions placed under the headings ‘Adhiccasamuppannikas’ and ‘Uddhamāghātanikas’, are formed, says Buddhaghosa, according to the object (kasina) of meditation selected by a meditator. He says that the meditators sometimes become so much engrossed with the object of their meditation that they lose their power of judgment. They are carried away by their ecstatic experiences and give out their individual experiences as the Truth. In the exposition of the thirty-four views given above, he pointed out, as far as possible, how far a kasina could be responsible for a particular view.¹ There are some views, however, based on the Buddhist notion of heavens and hells, e.g. attā hoti ekantasukhī, ekantadukkhī, sukhī-dukkhī, and so forth.