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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Y2K" data-source="post: 2658102" data-attributes="member: 35049">RIPENING ORDER OF REBIRTH GENERATING KAMMAWHAT WOULD BE more significant and useful to one is, I think, to understand the law that governs the order in which certain types of kamma present themselves to the mind in the few crucial moments before death. The kammas we have performed in the course of life are extremely varied: which particular type of kamma takes priority over others in determining rebirth? According to the Abhidhamma, weighty kamma gets foremost priority in producing rebirth, followed by near-death kamma, habitual kamma and reserve kamma.WEIGHTY KAMMAWeighty kamma is kamma of such powerful moral weight that it cannot be replaced by any other kamma as the determinant of rebirth. On the unwholesome side, weighty kamma means the kammic potential generated by any one of the following:maliciously creating a schism in the Sangha;the wounding of a Buddha;the murder of an arahant;matricide;parricide;a fixed wrong view that denies the basis for morality (see p. 43).On the wholesome side, weighty kamma means the attainment of the jhanas and maintaining the jhana attainment until death, after which, it will generate rebirth in a brahma world appropriate to the jhana attainment. If one attains jhana in a two-week retreat, and then goes back to the world without maintaining it, then the jhana attainment will not qualify as weighty kamma during death. Or if one were to develop the jhana and later were to commit one of the heinous crimes mentioned above, the good kamma would be obliterated by the evil deed, and the latter would generate rebirth into a woeful state. For example, Devadatta lost his psychic powers and was reborn in hell for wounding the Buddha and causing a schism in the Sangha.    But if someone were first to commit one of the heinous crimes, he or she would not be able later to attain jhana, path (magga) or fruition (phala) because the evil kamma would have created an insurmountable obstruction. Thus King Ajatasattu,while listening to the Buddha’s Discourse on the Fruits of Recluseship, had all the other conditions for reaching streamentry (sotàpatti), but because he had killed his father, King Bimbisara, he could not attain the path and fruition. However, the Buddha predicted that after having repaid their kammic debts, both Devadatta and Ajatasattu would, in some future existence, attain enlightenment as Paccekabuddhas [SolitaryBuddhas].</blockquote>

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