Rebirth and the Western Buddhist - Khamkoo
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88 <strong>Rebirth</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Western</strong> <strong>Buddhist</strong><br />
96 Spinoza, B.: Ethics, Pt.III, prop.2. Quoted by Schrodinger.<br />
97 Monod, Ref.86, p.148.<br />
98 Merrell-Wolff, Ref.87, p.151.<br />
99 Or, as happened last week, a bus is driving through<br />
Lausanne when a crane collapses on it, killing seven<br />
people. Who would seriously claim that since <strong>the</strong><br />
victims must have created <strong>the</strong> karma for such a<br />
death, it is pointless to seek <strong>the</strong> physical cause of<br />
this accident, or that no responsibility attaches to<br />
whoever may have been negligent in maintaining<br />
<strong>the</strong> crane?<br />
100 e.g. Story's essay "<strong>Rebirth</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Western</strong> Thinker"<br />
(Ref.29, pp.30-45) contains several blunders.<br />
101 See also Koestler, Arthur: The Roots of Coincidence.<br />
London, Picador, 1974. Chap.3, "Seriality <strong>and</strong> Synchronicity".<br />
102 Monod, Ref.86, pp.111-112.<br />
103 Mi la'i mgur 'bum (The Hundred Thous<strong>and</strong> Songs of<br />
Milarepa), Chap.3, p.18a.<br />
104 Story, Ref.29, pp.21o-i12.<br />
105 lb., pp.2o8-9.<br />
106 Nelli, Rene: La Philosophie du Catharisme. Paris,<br />
Payot, 1978. pp.183-4.<br />
107 Pisani, Ref.52, pp.194-7 & 202-6.<br />
108 lb., p.179·<br />
109 Story, Ref.29, pp.252 -9.<br />
110 Haich, Ref.42, p.336.<br />
111 Grant, Ref.36, Pt.IV, Chap.2-6.<br />
112 lb., Pt.VI, Chap.7.<br />
113 Cerminara, Ref. 64, p.29.<br />
114 lb., p.148.<br />
115 We assume that Wambach's subjects are more or<br />
less typical of <strong>the</strong> human race as a whole. While<br />
people of different countries must differ somewhat<br />
in <strong>the</strong>ir past-life histories, <strong>and</strong> conceivably people