digha agama 28 (09)

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VII. The three modes of self

The Chinese Agama 09 does not have this portion. It is missing, it is
replaced by
the self as sphere of desire, etc,.... The elephant trainer asked Buddha
:

- Venerable Sir, when the body formed of 4 elements exists, at
the same time
there are body in sphere of desire, of form, of emptiness, of
consciousness, of not
doing, of with and without thoughts. Venerable Sir, when the body formed
of 4
elements, are there bodies in the sphere of desire, of form, of
emptiness, of
consciousness, of not doing, of with and without thoughts ? Venerable
Sir, when
body of sphere of form, are there bodies in sphere of desire, of
emptiness, of
consicenceness, of not doing, of with and without thoughts ?

The question is obscure, quite incomprehensible. Notice here that the
name of
the elephant trainer is Sa-riputta, instead of Citta or Kitta in Pali
canon. Seeing
the differences in name, in place, we must acknowledge that the suttas
are
corrupted by the source : the ones who remember them, their memory fail,
they
are under the attack of their tendence, their understanding etc....