The Doctrine of the Buddha: The Religion of ReasonOffizin W. Drugulin, 1926 - 536 pages |
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... itself , that exhausts itself in the marks — just these five groups - wherein it appears . Sakkaya and personality are thus indeed equivalent terms . sums up under the four chief - elements , the 48 THE MOST EXCELLENT TRUTH OF SUFFERING.
... itself , that exhausts itself in the marks — just these five groups - wherein it appears . Sakkaya and personality are thus indeed equivalent terms . sums up under the four chief - elements , the 48 THE MOST EXCELLENT TRUTH OF SUFFERING.
Page 49
... elements : " This my formed body is composed of the four elements , generated by father and mother , built up from rice , porridge and sour gruel . " This body , constituted thus , shows itself endowed with organs of sense equally ...
... elements : " This my formed body is composed of the four elements , generated by father and mother , built up from rice , porridge and sour gruel . " This body , constituted thus , shows itself endowed with organs of sense equally ...
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... element may be either internal or external ; whereof the internal division is as follows . Whatsoever is found in ... element , whether belonging to the subject or foreign to the subject , all is designated as the earthy element . And ...
... element may be either internal or external ; whereof the internal division is as follows . Whatsoever is found in ... element , whether belonging to the subject or foreign to the subject , all is designated as the earthy element . And ...
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... element . Whatsoever exists of the watery element , whether belonging to the subject or foreign to the subject , all is designated as the watery element . And what is the fiery element ? The fiery element may be either internal or ...
... element . Whatsoever exists of the watery element , whether belonging to the subject or foreign to the subject , all is designated as the watery element . And what is the fiery element ? The fiery element may be either internal or ...
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... elements the world is summed up : " Everything will I show you , my monks . What is everything ? The eye and forms , the ear and sounds , the nose and odours , the tongue and flavours , the body and the objects of touch , the organ of ...
... elements the world is summed up : " Everything will I show you , my monks . What is everything ? The eye and forms , the ear and sounds , the nose and odours , the tongue and flavours , the body and the objects of touch , the organ of ...
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able according activities Ananda anattā annihilation antecedent condition arises ascetic Atman attained become bhikkhu birth bliss body endowed boundless Brahmin Buddha called cause Certainly clear cognition complete concentration conception conditioned consciousness consequence consists contemplation corporeal form corporeal organism course death deed deliverance dependence desire Digha Nikaya direction disciples Discourse doctrine element entirely eternal everything evil Exalted excellent truths existence five groups fundamental Gotama groups of grasping holy insight kind king knowledge living Majjhima Nikaya Māra means mental mentation mind Nagasena nature Nibbāna object odours organ of thought organs of sense ourselves painful penetrate perceive perfect perishes personality possible Prajapati precisely processes pure question realm reason rebirth recognize Recollectedness regard reverend rūpa saint Samsara Sankhārā Sariputta Schopenhauer sensation and perception six realms six senses six senses-machine suffering teaching thereby things thinking thirst touch transitory Upanishads Vacchagotta whole words Yamaka ye monks
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Page 403 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Page 16 - I will not have this arrow taken out until I have learnt whether the man who wounded me belonged to the warrior caste, or to the Brahmin caste, or to the agricultural caste, or to the menial caste!
Page 17 - Malunkyaputta, does not depend on the dogma that the world is eternal; nor does the religious life, Malunkyaputta, depend on the dogma that the world is not eternal. Whether the dogma obtain, Malunkyaputta, that the world is eternal, or that the world is not eternal, there still remain birth, old age, death, sorrow, lamentation, misery, grief, and despair, for the extinction of which in the present life I am prescribing.
Page 166 - ... mean or exalted, far or near, the correct view in the light of the highest knowledge is as follows: This is not mine; this am I not; this is not my Ego.
Page 154 - Your majesty, you are a delicate prince, an exceedingly delicate prince; and if, your majesty, you walk in the middle of the day on hot sandy ground, and you tread on rough grit, gravel, and sand, your feet become sore, your body tired, the mind is oppressed, and the body-consciousness suffers. Pray, did you come afoot, or riding?" "Bhante, I do not go afoot: I came in a chariot.
Page 100 - There is no such thing as alms or sacrifice or offering. There is neither fruit nor result of good or evil deeds. There is no such thing as this world or the next. There is neither father nor mother, nor beings springing into life without them.
Page 50 - There are in this body: hair of the head, hair of the body, nails, teeth, skin, flesh, sinews, bones, marrow, kidneys, heart, liver, pleura, spleen, lungs, intestines, mesentery...
Page 37 - Birth is suffering; old age is suffering; disease is suffering ; death is suffering ; sorrow and misery are suffering...
Page 243 - And he lets his mind pervade one quarter of the world with thoughts of pity, sympathy, and equanimity, and so the second, and so the third, and so the fourth. And thus the whole wide world, above, below, around, and everywhere, does he continue to pervade with heart of pity, sympathy, and equanimity, far-reaching, grown great, and beyond measure.
Page 156 - Thoroughly well, your majesty, do you understand a chariot. In exactly the same way, your majesty, in respect of me, Nagasena is but a way of counting, term, appellation, convenient designation, mere name for the hair of my head, hair of my body . . . brain of the head, form, sensation, perception, the predispositions, and consciousness. But in the absolute sense there is no Ego here to be found. And the priestess Vajira, your majesty, said as follows in the presence of The Blessed One: — " 'Even...