The Maha-Bodhi and the United Buddhist World: Vol. 18

All interested and disinterested aesthetic deeds performed with compassionate heart based on the foundations of setfacrifice belong to the realm of kusala kamma. “ Subbe kamma dhamma nekkhammu dhatu “ Nekkhamma is the third of the ten Paramitas, and nekkhamma samkappo is an adjunet of the second of the Noble Eigthfold Path, Nekkhamma is the opposite of kama aheta under whose influence men and gods develop their egoistic desires for the enjoyment of the sense pleasures, which arc five, viz., rupa, sabda, gandha, rasa, phottabba, (form sound, smell taste, touch). The highest form of renunciation belongs to the Bodhi-satva life.