Buddhism, Volume 1International Buddhist Society, 1903 - Buddha (The concept) |
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... Western sky - if thou wouldst learn Why on our earliest page stands plain to see Great Shwe Dagon , and why its first device Presents the stately fane ; boast of Rangoon , And pilgrimage for People of the Robe ; Soaring above the city ...
... Western sky - if thou wouldst learn Why on our earliest page stands plain to see Great Shwe Dagon , and why its first device Presents the stately fane ; boast of Rangoon , And pilgrimage for People of the Robe ; Soaring above the city ...
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... Western Lands ; its warring powers not the old Esir and the Demons of the Norse Mytho- logy , but the hopes , the ideals , the faiths ; the dark ignoran- ces and prejudices , the passions and the base desires of man . Fallen are the ...
... Western Lands ; its warring powers not the old Esir and the Demons of the Norse Mytho- logy , but the hopes , the ideals , the faiths ; the dark ignoran- ces and prejudices , the passions and the base desires of man . Fallen are the ...
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... Western world will be believing , rejecting , and refusing to consider ; and the recent discussions on " Why are the Churches empty ? are perhaps the most eloquent testimony of the " " effect that the teachings of Science have already ...
... Western world will be believing , rejecting , and refusing to consider ; and the recent discussions on " Why are the Churches empty ? are perhaps the most eloquent testimony of the " " effect that the teachings of Science have already ...
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... Western lands . If the churches are empty , the taverns are full ; if laws for the restraint of crime are multiplied each year , so also are the gaols ; if education is increasing on every hand , so also is insanity ; and , if we set ...
... Western lands . If the churches are empty , the taverns are full ; if laws for the restraint of crime are multiplied each year , so also are the gaols ; if education is increasing on every hand , so also is insanity ; and , if we set ...
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... Western Civilisation have been turned in a direction from which no final satisfaction can be gained ; -we would answer that the cure for somewhat at least of the burden of modern life lies in the adoption of an ethical system not based ...
... Western Civilisation have been turned in a direction from which no final satisfaction can be gained ; -we would answer that the cure for somewhat at least of the burden of modern life lies in the adoption of an ethical system not based ...
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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...