Buddhism, Volume 1International Buddhist Society, 1903 - Buddha (The concept) |
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... , which alone can rise to true contentment , to mental peace , to a happiness h finds its goal rather in the inalienable delights of the exercise of the higher mental faculties , than in the THE FAITH OF THE FUTURE . II.
... , which alone can rise to true contentment , to mental peace , to a happiness h finds its goal rather in the inalienable delights of the exercise of the higher mental faculties , than in the THE FAITH OF THE FUTURE . II.
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... happiness of those who pursue it ? Is any one of the answer which must be given to this question , as applied to the modern civilisation of the West ? Apart altogether from the misery that that civilisation has spread in lands beyond ...
... happiness of those who pursue it ? Is any one of the answer which must be given to this question , as applied to the modern civilisation of the West ? Apart altogether from the misery that that civilisation has spread in lands beyond ...
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... happiness to the masses of the peo- ple ? That is the great question on the answer to which lisation must be judged . And if the answer , as we think , is No , then what is the reason for the failure that that answer implies - what is ...
... happiness to the masses of the peo- ple ? That is the great question on the answer to which lisation must be judged . And if the answer , as we think , is No , then what is the reason for the failure that that answer implies - what is ...
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... happiness of mankind ; a Religion whose proudest boast it is that its altars are unstained by one drop of human blood ; — the Religion of the Law of Truth proclaimed by the Great Sage of India , the knowledge and the practise of which ...
... happiness of mankind ; a Religion whose proudest boast it is that its altars are unstained by one drop of human blood ; — the Religion of the Law of Truth proclaimed by the Great Sage of India , the knowledge and the practise of which ...
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... Happiness to which it leads , we speed a little further into the world of men the story of the Light He won for all ; -not indeed proclaiming " Thus we know , this , Brothers , is the only Truth " but , like the wise of old who wrote ...
... Happiness to which it leads , we speed a little further into the world of men the story of the Light He won for all ; -not indeed proclaiming " Thus we know , this , Brothers , is the only Truth " but , like the wise of old who wrote ...
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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...