Buddhist Philosophy in India and Ceylon c10.s7.4

c10.s7.4

The vagueness of the canonical view is confirmed by the *Milindapañha*,¹ where we find the threefold divisions of beings born of action as conscious; of fire and other things growing out of seed, as cause-born, the result, that is, of a previously existing material cause; and the earth, hills, water, wind, as season-born, depending for existence on reasons connected with the weather, while space and Nirvāṇa exist independently of all three forms of cause. In the face of this to assign to Buddhism faith in the uniformity of the causal process or of nature is absurd.