The Doctrine of the Buddha: The Religion of ReasonOffizin W. Drugulin, 1926 - 536 pages |
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... never been any religion which has appealed , not to faith solely but to reason : and no philosopher yet has claimed for himself that in his own person he has realised the supreme summit . Thereby , however , without further argument it ...
... never been any religion which has appealed , not to faith solely but to reason : and no philosopher yet has claimed for himself that in his own person he has realised the supreme summit . Thereby , however , without further argument it ...
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... never for a single moment was unfaithful to it . Alone of itself this compels for him the high esteem , nay , the veneration of every man who is not yet wholly depraved , as already , indeed , during his lifetime it led hearts to him ...
... never for a single moment was unfaithful to it . Alone of itself this compels for him the high esteem , nay , the veneration of every man who is not yet wholly depraved , as already , indeed , during his lifetime it led hearts to him ...
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... never enter any one's head to ask why the world is here , and constructed just as it is . Accordingly we find that the interest awakened by philo- sophical or religious systems has its strongest point in the dogma of some kind of ...
... never enter any one's head to ask why the world is here , and constructed just as it is . Accordingly we find that the interest awakened by philo- sophical or religious systems has its strongest point in the dogma of some kind of ...
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... never obtain again through any other man with the exception of another Perfectly Awakened One , it is " that doctrine that is peculiar to the Awakened Ones . ” Certainly mankind itself , in its greatest representatives , has 2 THEME AND ...
... never obtain again through any other man with the exception of another Perfectly Awakened One , it is " that doctrine that is peculiar to the Awakened Ones . ” Certainly mankind itself , in its greatest representatives , has 2 THEME AND ...
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... never have been too many . Most men find it convenient to take no notice at all of suffering in any form , to say nothing of occupying them- selves minutely with it . For them , there is of course no help , therefore they are not taken ...
... never have been too many . Most men find it convenient to take no notice at all of suffering in any form , to say nothing of occupying them- selves minutely with it . For them , there is of course no help , therefore they are not taken ...
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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...