Long Discourses: The Pāṭika Chapter
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Furthermore, a Realized One has arisen in the world … But that individual has been reborn in the ghost realm. This is the third lost opportunity for spiritual practice. Furthermore, a Realized One has arisen in the world … But that individual has been reborn in one of the long-lived orders of gods. This is the fourth lost opportunity for spiritual practice. Furthermore, a Realized One has arisen in the world … But that individual has been reborn in the borderlands, among uneducated foreigners, where monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen do not go. This is the fifth lost opportunity for spiritual practice. Furthermore, a Realized One has arisen in the world … And an individual is reborn in a central country. But they have wrong view and distorted perspective: ‘There’s no meaning in giving, sacrifice, or offerings. There’s no fruit or result of good and bad deeds. There’s no afterlife. There’s no such thing as mother and father, or beings that are reborn spontaneously. And there’s no ascetic or brahmin who is rightly comported and rightly practiced, and who describes the afterlife after realizing it with their own insight.’ This is the sixth lost opportunity for spiritual practice.