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Page 84
... Buddhism had a simple prescription : fetter the senses , curb one's animal impulses , reduce all forms of craving ! By drying up life at its source , one lessens the daily flow of misery . This is the doctrine of total sacrifice : the ...
... Buddhism had a simple prescription : fetter the senses , curb one's animal impulses , reduce all forms of craving ! By drying up life at its source , one lessens the daily flow of misery . This is the doctrine of total sacrifice : the ...
Page 196
... buddhist components in all religions . From the familiar example of Christianity , the Buddhist element seems to most people the specifically religious one : the attitude of detachment from earthly life , leading to withdrawal ...
... buddhist components in all religions . From the familiar example of Christianity , the Buddhist element seems to most people the specifically religious one : the attitude of detachment from earthly life , leading to withdrawal ...
Page 321
... Buddhism , 25 , 64 , 84 , 99 , 103 , 114 , 118 , 196 , 201 Bunyan , 3 Burckhardt , Jacob , 115 , 211 , 231 , 268 , 270 Bureaucracy , safeguard against . 282 Burrow , Dr Trigant , 52 Business cycle , manic - depressive , 178 Butler ...
... Buddhism , 25 , 64 , 84 , 99 , 103 , 114 , 118 , 196 , 201 Bunyan , 3 Burckhardt , Jacob , 115 , 211 , 231 , 268 , 270 Bureaucracy , safeguard against . 282 Burrow , Dr Trigant , 52 Business cycle , manic - depressive , 178 Butler ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF | 92 |
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achieved action activities animal become biological type body bring Buddhism capable capacity century Christian civilization concept consciousness cosmic create creative creatures culture death detachment dionysian discipline disintegration divine doctrine dominant drama dream dynamic dynamic equilibrium effect effort elements emergence essential ethics evil existence experience external fact forces functions further goal growth habits Herman Melville higher Hindu Hinduism human personality ideal impulses inner insight interpretation invention isolationism lack life's living man's Marxism means mechanical ment merely mind modern moral nature once one's organic original Patrick Geddes pattern perhaps philosophy physical Plato possible practice present present philosophy produce promethean psychodrama purpose religion renewal response role romanticism Schweitzer seek self-fabricating sense single Singular Points social society Socrates spiritual super-ego symbols teleology tion Toynbee transformation unity universal values whole world government York