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Suttas where Buddha taught laypeople after heaven they will be reborn in hell?

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In AN 4.123, it is reported the Buddha taught monks if a person clings to the heaven of jhana they will end up in hell, as follows: > *Monks, there are these four types of individuals to be found existing in the world. Which four?* > > *There is the case where an individual, withdrawn from sensuality, withdrawn from unskillful qualities, enters & remains in the first > jhana: rapture & pleasure born from withdrawal, accompanied by > directed thought & evaluation. He savors that, longs for that, finds > satisfaction through that. Staying there — fixed on that, dwelling > there often, not falling away from that — then when he dies he > reappears in conjunction with the devas of Brahma's retinue. The devas > of Brahma's retinue, monks, have a life-span of an eon. A > run-of-the-mill person having stayed there, having used up all the > life-span of those devas, goes to hell, to the animal womb, to the > state of the hungry shades.* ________________________________________________ In comparison, in many suttas addressed to laypeople, the Buddha taught if they do good kamma, they will appear in a happy state or in heaven, as follows: > *The Blessed One asked them, "Householders, is there any teacher agreeable to you, in whom you have found grounded conviction?"* > > *With regard to this, an observant person considers thus: 'If there is the other world, then this venerable person — on the breakup of the > body, after death — will reappear in a good destination, a heavenly > world. Even if we didn't speak of the other world, and there weren't > the true statement of those venerable contemplatives & brahmans, this > venerable person is still praised in the here-&-now by the observant > as a person of good habits & right view: one who holds to a doctrine > of existence.' If there really is a other world, then this venerable > person has made a good throw twice, in that he is praised by the > observant here-&-now; and in that — with the breakup of the body, > after death — he will reappear in a good destination, a heavenly > world. Thus this safe-bet teaching, when well grasped & adopted by > him, covers both sides, and leaves behind the possibility of the > unskillful. MN 60* ________________________________________________________________ > *The ascetics and brahmans thus ministered to as the Zenith by a householder show their compassion towards him in six ways:* > > > *(i) they restrain him from evil, (ii) they persuade him to do good, > (iii) they love him with a kind heart, (iv) they make him hear what he > has not heard, (v) they clarify what he has already heard, (vi) they > point out the **path to a heavenly state**.* > > *DN 31* ____________________________________________________________ Are there any suttas where it is taught to householder laypeople that after their time in heaven expires they will be reborn in hell?
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Oct 4, 2017, 06:46 PM
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