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... Truth proclaimed by the Great Sage of India , the knowledge and the practise of which has brought peace into the lives of innumerable men . Tested by the lapse of twenty - five centuries , by the lives of eighty generations of men ...
... Truth proclaimed by the Great Sage of India , the knowledge and the practise of which has brought peace into the lives of innumerable men . Tested by the lapse of twenty - five centuries , by the lives of eighty generations of men ...
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... Truth " but , like the wise of old who wrote that Message in the Books , low faltering only " Thus even have we heard . " It is written in our Scriptures that when the King of Truth had gained , after long strife and uttermost ...
... Truth " but , like the wise of old who wrote that Message in the Books , low faltering only " Thus even have we heard . " It is written in our Scriptures that when the King of Truth had gained , after long strife and uttermost ...
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... Truth for the World's sake alone ? And then , we learn , by that supernal power of Insight that comes with knowledge , He penetrated with His Inner Vision into the life of the world and saw the present and the future of mankind un ...
... Truth for the World's sake alone ? And then , we learn , by that supernal power of Insight that comes with knowledge , He penetrated with His Inner Vision into the life of the world and saw the present and the future of mankind un ...
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... truth ; knowing that , in the hidden workings of the Law of Life , our Message , scat- tered broadcast , will come to these . Happy are they to whom the day of wakening is nigh ! These we salute , who know our Message theirs - on whom ...
... truth ; knowing that , in the hidden workings of the Law of Life , our Message , scat- tered broadcast , will come to these . Happy are they to whom the day of wakening is nigh ! These we salute , who know our Message theirs - on whom ...
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... Truth of Sorrow , who indeed is free from it in all the worlds , or - 644 Light of Asia , " Book III . 66 For a further elucidation of these Four Truths , see Dr. Rhys Davids ' " Secret of Buddhism in his " American Lectures ; " and The ...
... Truth of Sorrow , who indeed is free from it in all the worlds , or - 644 Light of Asia , " Book III . 66 For a further elucidation of these Four Truths , see Dr. Rhys Davids ' " Secret of Buddhism in his " American Lectures ; " and The ...
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Æther alcohol amongst Ananda Anatta ancient appointed Arahan attained belief Bhikkhu Brahman Buddha Buddhist Burmese Bwin called cause century Ceylon chief Chinese Christian civilisation Council death Dhamma Dhammapada Dharmapāla doctrine earth English eternal ethical evil existence Faith further Gotama Government happiness heart human idea India Journal King knowledge learned light lives Mandalay Māra matter Maung means meditation Members mental mind Mindon Min Monastery Monks nature Nibbana Noble Novice object Pagoda Pāli passed Peace philosophy present pursue your training Rāhulo Rangoon realise Religion religious Rhys Davids sacred Samagama Samanera Sanskrit Sayadaw schools Scriptures shrines Shwe Society sorrow Soul Sutta T. W. RHYS DAVIDS Teacher teaching Temple Thathanabaing Thera things thought tion Tipitaka to-day true Truth universe Upagutta Upper Burma village Vinaya Western whilst words Yellow Robe
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Page 56 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on — an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!
Page 55 - Be absolute for death ; either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life : If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.
Page 55 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Page 98 - ALL that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.
Page 322 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.
Page 98 - By oneself the evil is done, by oneself one suffers; by oneself evil is left undone, by oneself one is purified. Purity and impurity belong to oneself, no one can purify another.
Page 56 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 443 - The thing that hath been is that which shall be ; and that which is done is that which shall be done ; and there is no new thing under the sun.
Page 263 - Strictly speaking, the duration of the life of a living being is exceedingly brief, lasting only while a thought lasts. Just as a chariot wheel in rolling rolls only at one point of the tire, and in resting rests only at one point ; in exactly the same way, the life of a living being lasts only for the period of one thought.
Page 538 - It is presumably due to these circumstances that the beliefs of all mankind about the material surroundings in which it dwells are not only imperfect but fundamentally wrong. It may seem singular that down to, say, five years ago, our race has, without exception, lived and died in a world of illusions...